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Were to go after a Rega Planet 2000?
Hey Nick,Just to summarize some of the cross-posts and youfavouring a Wadia like voicing in the DAC. The dAck introduce no phase artifacts in the time domain and would probably more mirror Wadia products which accept a slight roll-off(measured) in... 
AckDac vs Benchmark
Here is a summary of posts on th e dAck 2.0 to date at the followinglink. Cheers. 
The best DAC for the money
The Ack! dAck Rev 2.0 was announced yesterday as a 2nd generation design and a major iteration of the original dAck in a press releasePeAK 
Most achingly-beautiful music
Just in time for Xmas..."Over the Rhine"'s classic album "Good Dog Bad Dog"and their latest double CD called "Ohio"PeAK 
Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
Vade Forrester of "Positive Feedback" magazine tried the ART SLA-1 amp during his review of the Usher X-798 speaker. As much a amp review as a speaker review as the overall sound of the system was evaluated. PeaK 
Use of Digital Amps: Need serious help
It is possible that a new paradigm is created whereby digital input feeds such as PCM (analog level represented by magnitude of digital code at 44KHz/nyquist) can be directly converted to PWM (average loudness represesented by a dgitally derived "... 
Good DVD changers to use as transports?
Try Sony DVP-NS725p 
Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
Hi Ears,From your posting history, I see you have had Haflers,B&K,Adcom, Classe and Electrocompaniet amplifiers in and out of your sytem driving your Thiel speakers. Now that you've settled on the SLA-1 for the interim...could you describe wha... 
Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
The standard binding posts on the amplifier can only take banana plugs and bare wire. Those with spades on attached to their speaker wires are out of luck. I recently updated the plastic shrouding from the existing binding posts with a the corresp... 
Review: ART SLA-1 Amplifier
I have a page detaling some of the DIY details for the SLA-1:http://www.angelfire.com/ca/rchau/audio/sla-1.html#1.3 
Have you tried the ART SLA-1 amp yet?
Nice summary. Did you figure out how to use spades with the ART connectors ? I have found that amplifier is transparent to the upsteam source. The lean nature of the amp dissappeared when I tried the "skip track access" of Todd Krieger/Jerome Lang...