When I was using the A324 I found it to be very sensitive to transports and cables.It sounded very nice with a Rega Planet(original) and a Musical Fidelity A3 Cd used as transports.It sounded average with a Denon changer and absolutely awful with a cheap chinese DVD player as a transport.Most Digital cables I tried sounded good,however I did not like a monster 100 and loved an old Audio Alchemy(with the network(tin can).In my system,the MF DAC was rarely bright,and sometimes too bland.
Larry
Larry