It depends on the recording mostly. Soundstage is excellent. Decent height, width & depth. I wouldn't say world class but I wasn't at the recording to know. I wish there was a touch more detail and a bit more "power" behind the music. I find the CDSAse slightly softens things on CD and poor SACDs. On good SACD's & DSD based recordings I find the sound excellent and worthy of the price.
I do find high res 24/192 via my Prism Orpheus to be equal to the EMM on DSD sourced SACDs.
I do find high res 24/192 via my Prism Orpheus to be equal to the EMM on DSD sourced SACDs.