BradleyP

I had forgotten about that. I do own Muddy Waters Folk Singer on MFSL gold CD. It's fantastic! How about Belafonte returns to Carnegie Hall? That MFSL reissue is a gem, too.

What an informative review! Nice job. If this DAC gets it "right," then it's ultimately getting the performance only half right. The other half of the equation is the ADC in the studio. If all of the pre and post ringing and inaccuracy/affectation is an issue in a DAC, then why not in the ADC? Maybe Schiit needs to countenance a move into the pro audio space. Last weekend, I sat in a moderate size room with a pianist and a cellist. I did not detect "air," a 30-foot-wide soundstage, slam, bloom, sizzle, or anything of the audiophile sort, just a moving performance. In comparison to the best recordings played back on a competent rig, that performance sounded downright dull in comparison at first, but ultimately it wasn't. I think realism is a harder sell than surrealism.