Jesse

too much polished from my personal view. I bought two Esoteric's SACDs, one of them is Karlos Kleiber's Brahms' symphony originally digitally recorded in the 80's, and I would say it's worse than the Redbook CD. I also bought a lot of Toshiba made EMI CDs, and these are also too much polished. The only Japanese CDs I personally love are those XRCDs from JVC. I compared the US made Heifetz's Beethoven Violin Concerto SACD with the XRCD24 version, and the XRCD version is much better maybe because the XRCD didn't cut too much hiss noise in the high frequency part. Jesse from China

Hi, Daniel. I have been watching this site and thread for quite a period of time and I'm interested in this DAC. But is it possible to have a chance to have a listen in Mainland China just to make my decision? I inquired a guy who is very famous in HIFi circle and he simply told me to wait! Why don't you try to find someone to be your agent in China so we can soon enjoy your master work in the far east! My home is just near Shanghai.<br /> I recommended one of my friends to install his computer-based HiFi music centre using Apogee Rosetta 200 and Big Ben simply because there is no other DACs available to chosse from. We are all sure the future belongs to Computer-based audio equipments. Hope this time I can catch up with the Zeitgeist!