Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Thanks Charles1dad, It's just like most of all of you, I am kinda tripping on all the money I am spending in this hobby right now, I do not deny your and grannyring's pre-amp is better than most direct to amp set-ups, However, not to get off the subject, buying cables at the level I bought into would be insane!, just one of my interconnects cost $15,950.00 retail, No, I am not that stupid, I paid $7,000.00 used for 1-meter balanced, even at that price, can you imagine the total of tring to keep the same level of performance in cables intact?, man, like I said, Re-morgage the house, who knows, I respect all of you here, I may bite the bullet and take the plunge into an active pre-amp one day, another thing, I only have cds, No need for a pre-amp currently with my set-up, well see charles what I might do in the near future, Happy listening.

Thankyou Guidocorona for the Roland pricing, that was some great info on the differences of the Roland pre-amps as well.

sorry matt for getting a little off topic here, forgive me.

Audiolabyrinth,
I am curious to read Matt's impression of these fine DACs via the Criterion. What actually changes sonically with its insertion?
Charles,

One benefit of the mini is that you have a lot of choices about which software to use and how you implement memory play, upsampling, eq, etc.

IMO, too many options is the reason why so many tech challenged is having trouble with computer audio and reason Steve recommended Antipodes.