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I am afraid I may not quite get exactly what you are wanting to try. But it sounds like you have a ZBIT basically built into the Taboo, having transformers and balanced inputs into the Taboo? Does this transformer setup have a gain control? If not, that would present one difference from your stand alone ZBIT to consider.
To me it would all be about sound, and require experimentation to see if you like the stand alone ZBIT along with the transformers in the amp, as well as having the CSP325 in the equation. But that would require some hook-up play, and would likely end up with some trade offs, taking us back to, how does each equation sound?
The confusing part to me is how you plan to use your CSP325, when your plan is to connect the XLR from the DAC directly to XLR in the Taboo. This would rule out the CSP in between, right?
And to put the CSP3 in there, unless you had balanced inputs and outputs in the CSP, how would you wire its RCA ins and outs between the DAC XLR and amp XLR? Adaptors?
If you were to use the CSP3, and a stand alone ZBIT, it would seem you would wire the XLR from the DAC to XLR of the ZBIT....then the ZBIT's RCA outputs to the CSP3 RCA inputs....then RCA ICs between the CSP and Taboo.
But then you wouldn't get to try the transformers in the Taboo with all the rest. So it might be interesting to try a pair of adaptors to convert the CSP3 RCA ICs to XLR on the Taboo side?
That said, I have no experience with RCA to XLR adaptors, so can't comment on how real these possibilities are, or what they might do to your sound. But if you could find some transparent ones, though an added set of connections, a good adapter between the CSP3 ICs and Taboo balanced in might be good enough to make the possible benefits from using the Taboo transformers worth it???
I hope I got this about right. Makes my head spin. Wondering though, if a good pair of RCA to XLR adapters worked, you might like to use them all....DAC balanced to ZBIT, ZBIT RCAs to CSP3 RCAs, and CSP3 RCAs converted on the Taboo side to fit into the Taboo balanced....
Or not.....but I think this is what I would want to at least try if I had all that around, then if not good, experiment more and see what combination you like best.
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