Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Matt, "analog" means different things for different people... For me it is only an engineering term without any positive correlation to what I seek to hear... Far too many times I have been in "analog" suites at RMAF filled with ecstatic gents listening to sound that ranged from turgid, to grating, to soporific, and yes on occasion... to mesmerizing... Just the same as in suites where the source was a digital one.

Hence, I do not call analog a sound that I inherently enjoy a priori... I call my goal sound harmonically complex, linear, and mesmerizing... But "analog" per se is not for me associated with dopamine or oxytocin rush flow.

Hi Norm, I have no doubts that digital technology continues to make strides in a variety of different and equally valid directions, and so most likely does analog reproduction.

G.

Thankyou cerrot for post.

Hi CalvinJ, after a few years of happy ownership, I am still very much in love with my Vienna Die Muzik... Totally effortless, with fantastic stage and extension, and all those fine things that I like to call rich complexity, and bass to die for -- provided your room is large enough to avoid bass over-exhuberance. Can Die Muzik be bested?

Yes of course, by Matt for example, who has discovered an uber Die Muzik in his Dynaudios.

And of course by anyone who prefers a different sound signature instead.

Saluti, G.

Guidocorona. One a few could stop de musik it's a wonderful pleasing speaker.oh so musical. Vienna acoustics rich and textured

What can I say CalvinJ... DIe Muzik is my uber-cup of audible ambrosia.. But I recognize that what I find so immersive that it makes me forget that the outside world even exists, might leave someone else bored to the marrow.

Saluti, G.