Northstar 192 Transport and DAC - comments

I have owned the North Star combo for about 3 months now and have to tell you how much I enjoy listening to it. I haven't been listening to sacd much since I got the North Star gear. To be fair I have a $1000 sacd player. Build quality is rock solid and is very attractive(I can only speak for the silver). What you are going to hear is loads of detail while still sounding extremely smooth. Great recordings will sound even better, but you will hear everything on bad recordings also. It is very true to the source. This will be my digital source for a very very long time. I picked up a dealer demo so I can't comment on the service but that is probably a good thing because I haven't had any glitches or problems. The only bad thing I could say is the remote is plastic and feels cheap. The remote works perfectly just not what you would hope for being paired with such beautiful components. If that is the only complaint you know that it sounds great. I also play my dvd movies and through the dac via digital out on my dvd player with awesome results. Hope you enjoy it.

Nicksgem
Thank you for your response.I am really psyched - will probably purchase tommorrow and looking forward to a whole new listening of my collection - one the great pleasures of this passion.I have 600 CD's and just cant see changing formats at this time of audio uncertainty.
DVD - thats great news too as I have a Loewe 38" tube HDTV that I love.
Gammajo

Gammajo
If you do decide to purchase the Northstar, please report back on your impressions. I too was going to purchase one but decided to pick up and older transport instead. The chatter is that it is a fine transport, but I had questions about service and reliability, since they are a relative newcomer.