Blue Moon Award for Burson Audio's new DAC/Preamp

Nonoise I understand your point, I`m also an avid reader of his reviews and do look forward to them.

Yes, I recall that speculation regarding the AK 4397 but S. Ebaen ultimately choose the Yamamoto to replace his then current APL HiFi as his new reference DAC. It seems Yamamoto`s passive/very simple I/V conversion approach is sonically effective.
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Well a favorable comparison to the Yamamoto YDA-01 DAC in terms of organic character, exceptionally good tone saturation and natural presentation is very high praise. I own the YDA-01 DAC and it`s truely fantastic.

Nglazer,
just goes to show different strokes for different folks, I find his review approach very informative,honest and always with substantial comparisons with competing components for perspective. I look forward to reading his reviews with anticipation.
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I could`nt tell you what particular component in the text you provide. However in general I can understand his attempt to describe contrast and seperation of tones/overtones relstionship to the music`s background/foundation. The artist`s paintbrush/paint canvas metaphor works for me as does the acrlic/water color analogy.Essentially the nature of musical transients and decay.

Nonoise,
This description of tones-overtones and harmonic seperation of indivdual notes with decay characteristics could apply to any component. As all components in the audio system would contribute. Even cables would exert a sonic influence.