Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Yes , mattnshilp i'm regularly following it & thank you again for doing the videos on power lines. It  Did help me reconfirm & plan my stuff.
While the power lines were discussed i was toying with the idea of getting balanced power or getting my neutral earthed, with an isolation transformer. 
I've decided to go the balanced power path.
let's see how it pans out.
All the best
Regards

@neoshah, what make of balanced isolation transformer are you considering? Probably best to keep analogue and digital separate?

@mattnshilp , have you heard about the Center Stage footers from Pitch Perfect Sounds? They are getting excellent user reviews. Any plans to try?

I have not toetapaudio. But I’ll check it out.

Neoshah - glad to hear I’m helping. 👍🏻

Toetap - I lied. I do know the CenterStage. They are not actually from Pitch Perfect, they are from Critical Mass racks distributed exclusively by Pitch Perfect. They are a footer version of their constrained layer damping shelf technology. As such, I have no doubt whatsoever that they will be effective. HOWEVER, like the Qpods I question the efficacy of the constrained layer damping technology in a footer, since the physical size of th footer may simply not be enough mass to truly allow any statistically significant amount of damping to occur. The Qpods clearly work but I found them (although my jury is still out) to not be 100% even across the full frequency spectrum. I attributed that to the limited size of the footer. Now Critical Mass is the premier leader in the field, so if anyone is going to do a constrained layer damping footer right, it’s them! I would need to hear them to give them my formal support. 

I have officially decided to go with Symposium so I don’t need CLD footers on my shelves and my footers need to conduct that energy to the shelves to be properly managed. A similar size/shape top level CM shelf would be 3X more expensive. 

Hope that helped.