Chord 64dac

I'm lucky enough to have a Toronto dealer [Ed Stone of Executive Stereo] who has spent most of his life in recording studios. Since he has enough experience & integrity to recognize a 'breakthrough' when he hears it, I took him up on his offer of a loan of the DAC 64. As implied above, my experience with the Classe separates & my casual exposure to other high end cd players had made me extremely skeptical about the medium. The Chord has made me a believer however. It probably wont please 'youngsters' whose hearing has been corrupted by digital audio in general but for those of us who loathe the threadbare antiseptic sterility & typical low resolution of the medium this unit is a godsend.

I did notice a rather teasing term used in this months Hi-Fi News(UK mag)for a review of the "final" version of the Chord 64 DAC in next months issue(which issome three weeks away).
What this consists of I have no idea but thought those who had a unit or were considering one should know some mods or upgrades have been done recently or are about to be done.

To. the dac 64 user
Is their any problem with digital inputs because i heard that the aes/balance input is not work and it's sound bad with optical inputs.
thanks

I tried to post earlier but for some reason it didn't go through.

The DAC64 I'm now using (Ser. No. 5100) is actually my second, since we (the dealer, the Chord rep., and I) discovered a defect in the first one (Ser. No. 5063). Not to belabor the point, but I wonder if the "defect" was actually the "major design flaw", as mentioned by "reliable sources". To be brief, my first unit would not play at all---the sound was absolutely garbled--- with my Rotel RCD 950, and incorrectly on certain CDs with my CEC transport, although I had no (discernible) difficulty with my Sony DVD player. Go figure!

The unit I now have continues to perform flawlessly.

As for inputs: I've found the XLR input(using a BEL cable)to be the better of the two---XLR/RCA(using the supplied adapter)---available to me. (The optical output connector on the CEC is incompatible with the Chord input, so I haven't even tried to devise a method of using that inter-connection. Optical connections strike me as just so many unnecessary monkey-motions, going from electronics to optical on one end and vice versa on the other end. So why do it, unless there is a problem with electrical interference in the interconnection?)

Jim