I can offer a recommendation based on my personal experience. I too like digital that is reproduced with the analog “warmth” “lush-ness” “musical” pr however else or ears tell us to describe it. I found it with The Aesthetix DAC in my Romulus model. The DAC only is the Pandora. Maybe preowned would fit your budget. As a starting point, you could then roll tubes to suit your taste. I went to telefunken and amperex and am very happy. Also With this gear, you could have the caps resistors etc upgraded by Aesthetix to really impact SQ. My point is a hi-quality tube DAC will provide even more opportunity to achieve your goal. Good luck.
