Digital amp beat them all? Audio Physic Strada .

Marakanetz, if you win, will you use it or sell it right away? Either way, good luck.

If I would use it it might add on some digital collection in addition to my analogue. CDs sounded wonderful(even with correction bypas) since the DAC inside this unit can be used successfully with any transport. As far as I know about TACT it still uses analogue controlled output stage. What about an Audio Physic?

...even if I use it for analogue i will not use a correction system. If I use it without correction the signal will not be converted to digital and will go straight to the analogue domain.

Marakanetz, I believe that the TacT in it's basic form is pure digital in and out, the only conversion being that of PCM to PWM. Digital crossovers are standard. AD input and DA output are options. By the way the designer states that the room correction offers the most improvement.

Hmmm... What I believe is that what TACT unit accommodates in one box isn't necessary to the vast consumer and that makes this unit overpriced (please forgive me in re-directing this discussion). There are some consumers that don't want built-in DAC or correction. I admit that this unit accommodates the state of the art DAC that is able to bring regular red-book CD playback to the level that is very close to vinyl even with poor transport. In fact if this unit had an option to break up into different boxes it would be much more marketable. TACT RCS is relatively new thing in the audio market and somehow already there are used units with drop bellow the half of its price. I'll expect this unit to be cheaper but than again TACT will come up with something new and will descontinue the previous as all the manufacturers usually do. In my situation I would just only ask the manufacturer to brew for me a custom unloaded version without correction and even DAC leaving only digitally controlled analogue volume control and get their DSP later until my CD collection will be someway even close to half of my analogue. My CD collection stays for not long and serves for information purpouses only(meaning i sell them right after I've listened to them and buy different ones) so the demand on reproduction quality is quite low in comparison to analogue. And finally It is not even neccessary to have separate boxes It is good enough have a basic preamp box that can be upgradable by insearting cards just like you do it on your home PC: card for DAC, correction digital Xover, phono, ADC etc...