A warm DAC?

@nicktheknife
The best way to find out is try different cables and see if you can tell a difference.  Try to control for normal human biases as best you can.

@surfmark. Couldn’t agree more! 

For your purposes the PS Audio DAC III is a warm DAC and probably quite affordable used if you can find one. 

So, this group has given me quite the education, and for that I thank you all! I most certainly regret using "warm" to get this post started...My vocabulary has grown to, musical, organic, analog like, musical...I HAVE learned that I am not alone. There seems to be a contingent of folks who just want to enjoy what they have and have no need to make the transition to streaming...About half of my listening time is analog, so I just don't have the resources to get into the latest digital equipment...

After all of your responses, I am drawn towards the MGDT Orchid, Tubadour 3, Boarder Patrol and a PS Audio PW DAC to mate with my PS Audio, PW Transport...Cheers!
Let the over obsessing continue!

neko d-100-2 is very nice too... output transformer coupled, warm nature very easy to listen to, picked one up recently, quite impressed

as for units mentioned above:

rme adi2 is a really great dac but it is NOT warm... it is very good akm implementation - clean crisp tight focus revealing... not lean and strident but not warm

same for chord dacs - i have qutest, 2qute, mojo, soon to be adding an m scaler to qutest -- they are also not warm.  the sound has body and foundation but there is startling clarity and detail... not warm side of neutral imo