Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

ctsooner.......you mentioned the new Bonamassa recording....how is the sound quality?  I'm a huge JB fan but the sonics are pretty poor on all of the recordings I have.

TD

TD, I listened to JB at Carnegie recording thru Tidal last night and the SQ is very good, actually excellent.

I too feel it's excellent throughout Tidal.  They really miked it nicely. I went into the hall as soon as they opened it as I was so excited to see him in person finally and to share it with my wife.   The musicians he had were a who's who.  Tina Guo is one of the best cellists going right now and she plays everything. I've started to follow her on Instagram.  There are so many songs where the string just bites through everything.  When they dual on one of the cuts, it's so edgy, but not fatiguing like so many rock recordings.  

I guess he does everything himself from renting the halls, to marketing the shows to doing his own recordings. He owns it all out of J&R Industries in FL.  He was very smart not to sign away his work and he's very smart in the way he runs the business. I sure he has a partner or manager who does it for him.    

No thread hijack here.  Matt, I can't wait for you to get all the toys you are about to get into your room.  You can share when you want, but it's a veritable list of who's who in servers and so many have been mentioned already.  Talk about putting your money/ears where your mouth is....wait, ears/mouth switch....Oh well, back to servers.

I have had a few Ready made Server/network players. Decided on building my own Using HDplex Power Supply and Sotm Cards, Turned out to be better than my 10K Of the shelf network player. Sold that and now have 2 I use.

Playback Design has the Syrah Server, its a optimised computer. This is something you should look into.

SOTM makes great gear and some of the other companies use their parts internally.