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Lumin X1 or dCS Bartok
@fiza you have concluded that based on actually hearing these units?  Or on the basis of forum research/ 
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not yet - I am getting some other components installed and want to break those in a bit before demoing some of the DACs that have interested me - definitely going to need something going in though 
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@facten @lalitk thanks for letting me know.i reported several posts this morning.i will also try the support link, though, to just maybe let them know a bunch of irrelevant posts that I reported earlier was coming across. 
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@david_ten thanks for letting me know how to go about cleaning up irrelevant diatribes.i have flagged the posts...i cant quite figure out how to reach out to forum support to call their attention to the content at issue? 
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@bo1972 perhaps you should consider starting another thread on what a scam the hi-fi audio industry is?as opposed to repeatedly espousing your views (unrelated to my query) continually on this thread? 
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@djones51i hate to be one to argue with the great, all-knowing BO but....there are no winners here, anymore! 
Should I buy a VPI SCOUTMASTER. I OWN 25 RECORDS.
@rwortman what if you had 25 records but almost exclusively listened to music that analog recorded?so, you don’t already have an extensive collection but most of what you want to listen to is pre-1990... 
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@david_ten thanks for the real world check on format and usage - appreciate it!@audiotroy Sorry, i missed one of your recent replies.  Thank you for your reminder about T+A intention for the MQA update.just out of curiosity - have they definitivel... 
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@david_ten thanks for giving me an oasis in the deluge of off-topic replies since I last checked in!could you share a little more behind your thought process of not considering MQA limitations in your decisioning?  Is it the relative lack of conte... 
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@lalitk so, my local dealer (who ironically doesn’t carry any of those) has indicated he can get some demo units (at least for MSB and likely DCS...not as optimistic about T+A but given the MQA thing not sure that will matter to me)...So, I basica... 
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@djones51 @lalitk it was all REALLY good until page 6 lolhonestly, it might be appreciated if folks think they may be taking a thread off topic (at least enough so that they apologize and indicate that they don't want to do that) - that they actua... 
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@audiotroy I don’t mean this as argumentative as it may come across...you said: "If you want the most advanced digital product in the market currently the T+A is the one to beat."and yet it doesn’t have MQA ability - again, I am sure many would ar... 
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@4425 as of right now, I'm actually leaning toward the Bartok also....I am not sure if I really want to A/B with a Rossini...perhaps I should set the 15k or so the Bartok runs as the ceiling and only listen to that level of price or lower (ie to e... 
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@jworth thanks for chiming in!im a guitar player myself and, in addition to classical, i predominantly lean toward blues, classic rock, bit of hard rock myself (you know, guitar-centric stuff lol).i’ve heard good things about the Dave.@asiufy i he... 
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Right, exactly!