i too am biased in favor of mark levinson digital as i have a #37 transport AND a 360s dac. i recently upgraded my cables at considerable expense, and if anything they revealed how good my front end already is- a huge increase in resolution of fine details and a much deeper soundstage WITHOUT an increase in etch or grain that i can detect. it's not that i don't want to know what $65k in esoteric digital can do that my components can't, but simply put i have a startlingly musical system already. and what's going on with all of these EMM pieces up for sale (cdsd and the dac)- what in blazes are these audiogoners getting that's significantly better than that?! i just don't know anymore, but a friend keeps telling me that the future in digital will be in the form of hard drives and sd cards. I would have been happy with a library full of sacd's recorded/processed as well as Reference Recordings/prof.johnson did with HDCD.
but that's not going to happen either. i want to embrace the future, as long as it has something to do with the absolute best sound possible with full industry support of the same- but i have nagging doubts that will happen.
but that's not going to happen either. i want to embrace the future, as long as it has something to do with the absolute best sound possible with full industry support of the same- but i have nagging doubts that will happen.