Do you have a perfect digital marriage?

Well, if not perfect, I would say it is wonderfully engaging, and I look forward to discovering music through it daily. I hardly ever think about the equipment, which I love.

Small Green Computer SonicTransporter i5/Sonore Optical Rendu/Ayre QB 9 DSD Twenty.

Enough richness, color and density so it really feels like music. More than my perfectly good CD player. And Roon is easy enough to make my way through Qobuz and thousands of ripped files. Not perfect, but more than good enough...

Sonic transporter i5 with Roon on network main router in separate room.
Mesh router to optical FMC, EtherRegan w/After Dark clock, Stack SmoothLan, Bricasti M5 Network Streamer, USB to Mojo Mystique EVO B4B 21. Puts a smile on!

Yes. Aurrender W20SE —> Audio Research Reference 9CD DAC. Musical, detailed, enveloping, natural with great imaging.. 

The problem is, it sounds just like my great analog end top end Linn LP12 with Koetsue Rosewood Signature cartridge and Audio Research Reference 3 phonostage. I was ecstatic when my digital end at last measured up to my analog end. Now the problem is, there is absolutely no benefit to listen to and of my 2,000 albums. So, I am starting to think about investing another $10K+ into a cartridge to help my vinyl end pull ahead enough to justify using it once in a while. It’s just collecting dust now.

Admittedly, a great problem to have. 

You guys have some great marriages. Impressive.

Fiber optic to an Afterdark Netone, to a Gimm Mu1 streamer, via Shunyata Omega AES to a Lampizator Horizon 360 DAC with TP adaptors for NOS tubes. There is both a Roon server and a media storage server. within the Mu1.   I also have a $300 CD transport that feeds the Gimm Mu1 steamer that upsamples the CD feed and turns it into great sound. I use Swiss Digital fuses with Graphene coated slugs in both the streamer and the DAC. The DAC also sits on HIFISTAY footers. Both the streamer and DAC have Source AQ Dragon cords, Finally, the power comes from a pair of Shunyata Typhon 2 (30 amp version) with Snubways and MainStream plug ins, in each of the Typhons. The Afterdark Netone has three components in one slick box...copper to fiber or fiber to copper galvanic bridge, internal linear power supply, multiport switch and an internal XO clock 10 Mhz. Grounding is handled by the Shunyata Altaira with Omega and Sigma V2 ground cables.

I can use many adjectives to describe the sound, but this is the first time in a decades long dance with digital that now and then I forget I'm listening to a recording. Just once in a while, but never before has a system I have heard engaged me as IF it were a live event.