I'm not sure what the disconnect is. The BP is utterly life changing for a digital front end. For the last 20 years most dacs have relatively similar shortcomings and sonic signatures due the fact of using basically the same ICs for digital filtering and OS. Then came delta sigma, with everyone falling into the crack pipe like oversampling hamster wheel. (It sounds better so I over-sample, so it sounds better, so I over-sample more, so it...) It didn't matter if the unit was $500 or $5000 they all sounded... digital.
Compared to any other DAC under $5k the Border Patrol is the first to provide actual textured nuanced bass instead of the relentless granulated single note thumping sound that has me running to the laundry room thinking someone put the cat in the dryer.
