I've been very satisfied with mine. I listen mostly to classical music, and I have been unable to perceive any significant weaknesses in my BCD-1.
The only thing that might lead me to ultimately want to explore other possibilities would be if I wanted to incorporate computer-based audio, and the ability to play hi rez formats, into the system. And I don't envision doing that in the foreseeable future.
Given that, one of the nice things about a good one-box solution like the BCD-1 is that I don't have to worry about the jitter-related issues that would be concerns with S/PDIF and AES/EBU interfaces between digital sources and dacs, such as impedance matching, waveform reflections, ground loops between digital source and dac, cable length, cable type, etc.
Regards,
-- Al
The only thing that might lead me to ultimately want to explore other possibilities would be if I wanted to incorporate computer-based audio, and the ability to play hi rez formats, into the system. And I don't envision doing that in the foreseeable future.
Given that, one of the nice things about a good one-box solution like the BCD-1 is that I don't have to worry about the jitter-related issues that would be concerns with S/PDIF and AES/EBU interfaces between digital sources and dacs, such as impedance matching, waveform reflections, ground loops between digital source and dac, cable length, cable type, etc.
Regards,
-- Al