Musical Fidelity A324 DAC as good as Tellig says?

Yes indeedee. You have no idea, or maybe you do, what this can do for your system. I purchased, and have been running for 3 weeks the Audio Magic Stealth LC.(they call it a purifier/whatever) This is the best thing I have done for my system in 6 years. Did lots of homework on all the others. Not enough time to get into it. It was the Audiogoners that turned me on to it and set me free. I waas considering the PS Audio 300 & 600, the Shunyata Hydra and other costly ones, but this is what I finally went with. It was some interesting posts here and there that lead me to this. It's quite amazing. I've got lots of the ubiquitous, audiolingo superlatives, and then some, but if you're really interested drop me an email and ask away. This is one inexpensive, by my standards, component that will affect every component you have that runs on electricity. And all the benefits will go to your speakers, if they can handle them. And if they can't? Well, there's always something else out there.

warren

Though I'm not familiar with the unit Warren is talking about, I will say concerning power conditiong that of all my source compenents, by far the most marked differences to be heard were realized with my digital separates. But an equally important aspect of that treatment to the filtering was running balanced AC. I have an API Power Wedge Ultra, which lets you switch on the fly between +120/-0 and +60/-60, and it really shows its worth on CD playback, even when I engage balanced on only the transport, the jitter-box, or the DAC individually, and the effects add right up when all three are fed the balanced AC together. (By contrast, I can tell no difference between balanced and regular filtered AC when supplying it to my tube preamp.)

Well, history did not repeat itself...see my further thoughts, comments and rants in a new post titled "Upsampling Put To The Test", which they should throw up there today if they don't decide that it's inappropriate! (And bring a bag lunch and take the phone off the hook - it's a real mutha 4 ya!)
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1) there do not seem to be MF dealers while I live, near Chicago. I would definitely audition first if at all possible, also I don't think MF or dealers offer free home trial??
2) Sam Tellig reminds me of some kind of slick used car salesman. I don't get a feeling of confidence from his recommendations, he doesn't usually go into much depth or subtlety in his reviews. It's just cute stuff like "this is great" or "yus got to try it...". I definitely would not buy without trying it first.

I listened to this unit at my dealer's with similar electronics to what I'm using ( MF A300 integrated and A3 cdp). The sound was different but I don't thnk it was any more real or involving--- it took a studio piano sound and turned it into a kind of badly recorded live date in a club sound, plenty of distortion and noise.For 1200. I'll pass. John