Is the EMM DAC6e or DCC2 /CDSD the best out there?

Exlibris, good question.

Soooo . . . Mikel and Alex . . . are you getting together? Some of us would love to learn of your impressions of each other's systems and front ends . . .

Thanks.

The number of EMM dacs currently for sale on Audiogon (8?) might lead one to believe that it isn't "the best out there."

"The number of EMM dacs currently for sale on Audiogon (8?) might lead one to believe that it isn't "the best out there."

IMO that is a somewhat far stretched assumption on your part.

Bookner, Mikelavigne visited me at CES. I played the promised DVD-A made directly from $25K vinyl setup for him. He agreed that it was exactly as the vinyl was playing there with no sign of digital or negative artifacts.

I will soon take advantage of his generous invitation and visit him with my DVD-A recording suite and my Digital Front end. There will be two objectives:

1. To see if 96KHz/24bit recording out of his vinyl setup will sound the same on A-B test.

2. To see how his EMM Labs gear will do against my re-engineered Esoteric UX-1. Well, actually, I already know the answer to this question since we already had an A-B test with the latest EMM Labs gear and the UX-1 at a local audiophile's house last weekend.

Stay tuned!

Alex