Why not give the HPA4 a free home trial. You put the Bartok XLR outputs into input #1 of the HPA4 which is supposed to be optimized for DACs.
Last night I went to bed listening to the BHA-1 + Meze and Springsteen's River album. That edginess you and I hear bothered the heck out of me. What did you replace your BHA-1 with? The BHA-1 does s few things I like, such as analog inputs and XLR outputs to external speakers. I would love to find something that has that feature set. I only paid $900 for my 10/10 used unit so I am keeping it around but I do get annoyed by it.
Last night I went to bed listening to the BHA-1 + Meze and Springsteen's River album. That edginess you and I hear bothered the heck out of me. What did you replace your BHA-1 with? The BHA-1 does s few things I like, such as analog inputs and XLR outputs to external speakers. I would love to find something that has that feature set. I only paid $900 for my 10/10 used unit so I am keeping it around but I do get annoyed by it.