You're probably not going to like my response. Basically, I'm all analog. What I did notice at Ori's(Oritek X-2's) house was a lack of stomach or Adam's apple tension that I usually get with digital. My system consists of an Ariston RD110 turntable(with a circa 1992 Linn Sondek, Ekos, nude Archiv, Lingo, Mana table waiting in the wings), Sumiko MMT tonearm, Denon 303(or 304) cartridge sitting on Mapleshade's 2-inch maple, with their footers. My preamp is an RGR(Robert Grodinski's Research). Amplifiers are Nuforce 8.02b's. Speakers are DCM Time-Windows. Cables consist of Signal Cable Silver Resolutions(thanks Plato). Gear sits upon and under Bright Star Audio and Mapleshade stuff. Since I currently use two interconnects(I have an RCA junction box on the turntable and a Fidelity Research transformer.). Between the preamp and amp, I have used Oritek X-1's, Eichmann Express 6, and Elf Audio's Reference(ccc). It is there that the Oritek X-2's kicked rear end. I know that my case is not specific to yours(analog versus digital), but if you look at the Oritek X-1 reviews, you will see most were with digital-and I can easily assure you that the X-2's are in a different league from the X-1's.
