Parity

Congratulations.

It is a great milestone in everyone’s system. The constant pull to the better one really takes away a lot of pleasure. So enjoy. I have never enjoyed my system more. I just stream +95% now.

By the way, with a change the digital end you could eliminate the finely etched… or for that matter you could get rid of the mellowness of the vinyl. The character of each are primarily determined by your streamer / DAC or cartridge / Phonostage.

So if in the future you get an urge to either split the difference and have the two sounds converge or have both move towards one or the other you can.

Great - Be Happy!

BTW Jenny Lin has a CD out on the Steinway label called "Be Happy" which is easy to recommend for some relaxed listening - check it out. She's a pretty fair pianist I think.

Thyname,

I think I spent about twice as much for the analog side.

Newbee,

I will check it out.

‘Thank you.

@rvpiano I am an audiophile first, but also an Aurender dealer, so take the below as both  objective and subjective suggestion.

I used to own the Cambridge CXN V2 as my primary streamer in a second system. I had immediately upgraded it to the Modwright-modded one, where Dan Wright overhauls the unit entirely with a tube analog stage, massive transformer, and linear power supply. It was a great improvement that moved its DAC performance very close to the PS Audio DirectStream DAC (which I also had at the time), but with more bloom. I ended up selling the CXN V2 when I consolidated that system to make space to become a dealer earlier this year.

Recently, I had a customer bring his CXN (also Modwright-modded) to demo both  its streamer capabilities against an Aurender N200 and its DAC against the T+A DAC 200. While the T+A DAC 200 was clearly a better performer than the Modwright-modded CXN V2, the surprisingly bigger gain resulted from using the Aurender N200 as a streamer to the Modwright CXN V2's digital input and DAC. The difference was so great and immediately noticeable that the customer said within a minute "I'm buying the N200". I never noticed how etched the CXN's streamer was. The N200 was more detailed, more cohesive and musical, fuller-bodied. Something for you to consider as you continue to elevate your digital source.