I agree with Ghostrider. I was thinking that, for products that are available now or have been announced, dCS's Verdi transport and Grieg upsampler/phono ADC would allow things to be kept in the digital domain as much as possible. But for this to work (Verdi -> Grieg -> Tact), the Grieg would have to convert DSD to 24/96. I emailed dCS and they said this conversion is not in the works because of fears (recording industry?) of allowing low-res copies to be created from high resolution formats... The promise is there but it seems like it's still a little ways off.
How about these scenarios?
1) dCS gets into room correction. DSD can travel down a dCS chain - Verdi->Grieg->RCS->DAC.
2) More manufacturers bite and provide DSD (firewire?) interfaces. Tact can follow with a DSD update.
If the DSD interface is bogged down, I'd like to see Tact come out with an SACD transport even if the interface is proprietary, and updated their RCS.
How about these scenarios?
1) dCS gets into room correction. DSD can travel down a dCS chain - Verdi->Grieg->RCS->DAC.
2) More manufacturers bite and provide DSD (firewire?) interfaces. Tact can follow with a DSD update.
If the DSD interface is bogged down, I'd like to see Tact come out with an SACD transport even if the interface is proprietary, and updated their RCS.