I don't know what warm sound is unless you want 2nd order distortion versus odd order distortion which sounds brighter. As to a neutral but very full sounding DAC, I can recommend the COS Engineering D1. Their H-1 is more open but much less full sounding. I own the D-2 which is in-between, quite full sounding but not quite as open. The price differences are significant with the D1 at $10K and the D2 at $5k, H-1 at $2.5K(?). I'm coming from an EAR Acute, my former "warm" sounding tube CD player. The greatly improved micro details, more open soundstage made the D-2 my choice over my 15 year old CD player. All three models are not too far forward or too far back from the speaker sounding, just right in the middle, permitting the recording soundstage to reproduce more accurately.
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