About the EMM Labs DAC

Irishdog - THANK YOU!! That is the most sane statement I have ever heard concerning the status of digital disc technology.

Is it asking too much for a player that is NOT discontinued (SACD-1000), that Meitner does NOT refuse to convert anymore, that we can actually buy NOW for less then the price of a nice USED CAR and that could actually produce great quality sound on all current formats - INCLUDING (God forbid!) DVD-Video?

Has the general acceptance of the pitifully-compressed sound of MP3's convinced all the equipment manufacturers and recording companies that high levels of digital sound quality are no longer needed in the marketplace to sell their junk?

Even on newly-released CD's, with all of the state-of-the-art recording technology available now, sound quality is the least important aspect of the engineering. The latest Jonny Lang and Rush CD's (not the new live Rush release) are the WORST recordings I have ever heard. They are both getting sold to a used CD store as soon as possible.

This is depressing.....
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There is no question that Meitner is at the top of this game. The problem is, the game itself sucks. Even if I could justify the cost of his products and buy them today, I still can't play DVD-Audio or DVD-Video discs without buying some other player. And of course, Ed would say "why would you want to???". Well, I DO.

Simple fact is, until the format wars are resolved or yet another format completely takes over, there will NOT be enough quality MAINSTREAM music available on ONE hi-res format to finally finish-off CD's as the primary (yet inferior) audio media. And why should it when the general public has no clue that we are all being cheated of good sound quality by a recording industry that does not care?