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Audio Voodoo - A tale of Offramp 5 and PWD MKII
Love the Trinnov. Need professional help setting it up though. You can get them in many flavours with as many outputs / inputs as you like (the pro units). Mine is 4 digital in, 4 digital out, 4 analog in and 4 analog out with license to process 4... 
The best acoustic guitar recordings??
Also, the guitar playing by tomatito on flamenco vivo (cameron de la isla) is phenomenal and spectacularly recorded. 
The best acoustic guitar recordings??
I second Aerial Bounderies. Can't go wrong with all The Ralph Towner stuff own ECM either. Also try Egberto Gismonte on ECM. 
How diverse is your musical taste?
I would say pretty much everything is fair game with the exception of heavy metal, avantgarde jazz and avantgarde classical and country. 
PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade
Mcondon, PS audio is specifically positioning the DAC as a network steaming device. The ultimate goal is to get the bridge interface to sound as good as the PWT, which theoretically it should be capable of. I personally went from using the bridge ... 
where next to go?
Feeding SACD to the DlinkIII is probably DSD converted to 88/14 PCM. This is obviously not apples to apples with your Vlink source. Try playing a redbook CD with the Sony and see of voices are OK. 
Should Sound Quality of Computer Audio be improved
I occasionally check this threat to see if Pettyofficer is still at it. He never disappoints. Entertaining as hell. He couls publish this as "ramblings of an paranoid audiophile" and make a killing. 
An SACD question
Well at least this thread insipred me to go SACD shopping. Picked up 5 x 2L Nordic disc releases, 2 Channel Classics, and threw in one Jazz release for good measure. Some of this stuff is rediculously cheap ($10 + $3 shipping on Amazon market for ... 
where next to go?
Jason, here is how it works. The vast majority of DACs operate in sychronous mode on all inputs except for USB. This means the source/transport provides the masterclock, and makes sound quality highly sensitive to the quality of this clock.There a... 
where next to go?
David, both your USB converter and DAC are not cream of the crop. You should either upgrade your USB converter (which will provide the all important clock to the DAC), or get a stellar asynchronous USB DAC.I would personally go the USB Dac route. ... 
An SACD question
Sadly, supply in my musical area of interest has pretty much dried up, but I occasionally scan some sites for new releases. If a label like 2L Nordic sounds releases something of interest I jump on it.... 
Catchy tunes that sound great?
The entire Adele 21 album are catchy tunes. 
2012 Discoveries
Alabama Shakes - debut album Boys and Girls. Very soulful stuff. Single "Hold on" is getting some radio time. 
PS Audio PerfectWave DAC Upgrade
I own an OR5 and a PWD MKII with bridge, so I could do a shoot out. Problem is my system is configured to run through a processor using AEs/EBU so this would be a bit of a hassle. May be I'll get around to it some day. 
Where to buy Paradigm inwalls in North NJ area?
I bought mine for 40% of msrp brand new on eBay.