Upsampling DACs

Look on my thread about the Allnic D5000 DHT.

It best my EMM dac2x by a wide margin and much cheaper. It is more versatile than the Empirical Audio Overdrive SE but produces a different sound. Although Empirical does not upsample, it plays redbook files better than the same tracks in DSD format on the EMM.

I have not a to b the Empirical to Allnic formally. However, Allnic has not left my system. Often times I get hairs standing up my back on certain tracks and I really like that.

I have a review pending for the Allnic D5000. What part of the country are you located?

I would be interested in hearing a to b with Lapmi series dacs as this would be a great comparison.

The Vitus RD-100 is an excellent upsampling dac and employs filter-down technology from the previous Signature series spinner (SCD-010). It also includes a good analogue linestage which uses a new version of Vitus's relay-based volume control and 2 'true' analogue inputs (1 rca + 1 xlr), including an array of digital inputs.

The RD-100 benefits from extremely wide bandwidth, future-proof discrete modular architecture and impeccable build quality. The sound is neutral, natural, flowing and sounds somewhat tube-like in terms of its tonal saturation, texture and dimensionality. An easy recommendation, unless you need a good sacd player, in which case i'd recommend the Vitus RCD-101. The dac section is in that player is on par with the RD-100, but omits the analogue linestage.

Ok, thanks guys, much appreciated. How much are these units?