Weiss Dac2/Minerva?

I can't to be honest. I understand that these forums are full of golden-eared critiques of various components and combinations, but I do not work that way.
Both are very good. Listening to CDs ripped to FLAC through Minerva I do not miss the CD played through the EMM combination. HiRes sounds superb through Minerva, just as good SACDs sound through EMM.
My point to you was that the Minerva offers a very good package of qualities: digital in and out plus analog, including Firewire and HiRes. Not preventing you from using a different DAC later. It is very good and the support from Daniel has been superb.

About a month ago, I got a home demo of the Minerva, fed from my IMac running the Apple OS & iTunes.

Frankly, I was disappointed.

The sound did not match that of my CD player, which is nothing esoteric... an Electrocompaniet EC-1 Upsampling... :-(

Indianears, interesting, what sort of files were you running through iTunes? Uncompressed?

Were feeding the Minerva with Firewire or some other interface?

1. Yes, was certainly running uncompressed .... !

And playing the SAME disc ( ...pressing DO sound different.)

2. Yes, Minerva fed via firewire from the iMac. No esoteric Firewire cable used, though.

The Interconnects were Argento Master Ref, Balanced. The same interconnects were swapped between the CD player and the Minerva.

.... incidentally, I had problems with getting the Minerva recognised using Windows & running Foobar, on the same iMac using Boot camp ( allows Mac & Win OS and a selective startup into either OS. Bootcamp is by Apple ) I would have been a bit wary with Foobar, with the need to ensure ASIO but no such concerns in iTunes running on Mac, so I was genuinely surprised and disappointed at the sound. The (pre-owned) Minerva was on offer at 50% off list, and I was seriously considering a purchase....