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Thanks for your thoughtful reply. My digital sounds very good to my ears so I need to keep the AN DAC. It brought my digital so much closer to the musical enjoyment of vinyl. That in the addition of a six pack of REL subwoofers. I actually had a friend bring a Phoenix clock over and I heard it in my system with my Zen 3. It made a material difference that I really liked. So my plan was to buy the clock. But then when I add the clock and the cable and another power cord, it's not that much different money to just sell the Zen 3 and buy an Evo aeon or for a couple thousand more get an innuos statement. Given the improvement I heard with the clock, I'm sure the other improvements would yield some benefit. And my digital is sounding so close in terms of musical enjoyment to the analog now, that I may be selling my analog rig for now and using the money to upgrade. 

So it sounds like you're saying that there are some benefits that would be better realized with a dac that can handle higher sampling rates. Given the above that I've said, does anyone think the Evo or the NUS are necessarily better for 16/44? Or is that not really going to be a factor in my decision? I'm going to be buying used so I probably won't get a chance to audition. 

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Thanks dsockel. Yeah it's funny I was just reading about the Grimm mu1 last night. Did optimizes for SPDIF and aes, so that's a good fit for the audio note and put as well.

Appreciate the suggestion but I would not change DACs. The Audio Note sounds so much closer to real than most digital I have heard. Different design approach entirely than high-res design approach. Like most things in this hobby though, well executed components can all sound great, even if their design approach is completely different. Never ceases to amaze me. Witness dynamic vs planar speakers or set vs solid state amps. There are great examples of all of them and terrible examples of many of them.

Ha! If Peter Qvordrup were dead he'd be rolling in his grave! Audio Note builds their dacs very intentionally to avoid all that! Read up on their design philosophy ... It's pretty interesting. And I for one would never argue with the incredible result. Doing what you suggest I imagine would ruin the sound ;)

Yes audphile1, I had been thinking about adding a clock to my current Innuous Zen. And I believe the Grimm mu-1 has a very sophisticated clock and is optimized for spdif output. So I'm  definitely heading that direction one way or another. I don't know much about aurender but I'm going to read up on them. 

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Audioarchon: Thanks for that! This is part of what I was wondering.

Is much of the Grimm magic lost when the upsampling is limited to what my AN UK DAC4 can deal with? That was another question I have.

I am in St. Louis, so not far away.