Alf

Understood, but does the music that you are looking for exist in native DSD format? What do you think of the existing native DSD "catalogues"? Alf

Why should we care about Amarra supporting DSD? I.M.H.O. PCM music availability is very very limited but DSD is minuscule... I'd say practically useless if not for audiophile testing Alf

Hello Architect, I have not but I see no reason why it should not work... it also seems a clean and high performance system at a reasonable cost Alf

Of course I do as I see fit and anybody can decide by himself what is BS. Alf

"In my perception" as you say I do not see a reason for boutique power cords to exist... I have to repeat that I believe that quality components manufacturers know if a good engineering concept is there, and are conscentious enough to sell their components with a power cord that will NOT degrade the performance of their products, even more so as a good power cord will NOT cost them hundreds of dollars (let me not comment about thousand dollars power cords) The pain does not set in at any price point because I'm not replacing the supplied power cords for the above mentioned reasons. This preference of yours sounds very reasonable to me Alf

I join the ranks of the skeptics who think that boutique power cords are built with a sizable quantity of snake oil... as well as I believe that most (if not all) hardware manufacturers know their business and are conscentious enough to sell their components with a power cord that will NOT degrade the performance of their products Alf

I use a PC so Foobar 2000, Wasapi and RAMdisk Alf

It will actually be the media player that needs to decode the Dolby/DTS track to PCM, not the sound card. As to my understanding basically all DVD/Bluray media players can decode Dolby/DTS to PCM. Then what you need is just a sound card with enough analog outputs. RME is one alternative, but it may be too expensive... some alternatives are discussed here: High-quality 8-channel analog output Alf