Digital Audio Denmark convertors

as far as optimization of digital playback, the Playback Designs MPS-5 does solve the clocking/jitter issue intertnally without reclocking devices.

for some insight into how Playback Designs approaches this issue, follow this link to some answers from Andreas Koch, the designer of the MPS-5;

Link to Andreas's comments

i use the MPS-5 as a high rez server DAC as well as an SACD disc player and Redbook disc player. it's the player i prefer at all three of these tasks i have heard. i use the Lynx AES16 XLR sound card in my server.

We have the DAD AX24, Playback Designs and EMM Labs/Meitner converter in here to compare side by side and use every day. The Playback Designs MPS-5 is our "go to" DAC and disc player. We've heard almost all of them (except for Grimm and Mytek). It's the best out there. We use the DAD for it's A-D and mic pre's, and we do all our HDTracks transfers with the EMM Labs/Meitner gear.

Bruce, have you directly compared the MH ULN-8 to the other ones you mentioned? If so, could you briefly articulate how it compared sonically to the other DAC's you mentioned? From what I've read the ULN-8 seems to be getting consistently rave reviews from the pro community. Perhaps you've seen Barry's posts on the CA forum.

Thanks and have fun at CES.