[quote user="Dave Moulton"] When I first took delivery of my Beolab 5s, I ran them in analog mode for about 6 months, driven by a good analog professional monitor controller that was being fed by analog outputs of a respectable digital mixing console. I then replaced that monitor controller with a digital one, so that my signal flow became

I've done a lot of reading on the Beoworld Forums about this subject, but I can't seem to find a definitive answer. Since the Beolab 5 converts an audio signal to digital to do processing on it before playback, it seems that digital -> BL5 is the best approach. However, I have a very nice Benchmark HDR DAC I'd like to utilize in the middle