mahler123 I am interested in further discussion insofar as I have a system very similar to
yours...B&W802D2's etc....and listen more or less exclusively to classical music. I had a Denon 1713UD universal player and replaced it with the Oppo 105d, which improved on clarity at the expense of harshness. I then added a Luxman DA-06, based like the Denon on BB 1795 chips, and believe I achieved clarity greater than that offered by the Oppo, with full-bodied resonance particularly complementary to piano music, and with overall sweetness and smoothness. Annie Fischer's celebrated recordings of the Beethoven piano sonatas, which manifest some treble thinness ? related to her partial 'reworking' of her venerated Boesendorfer, sound wonderful with the Luxman. String quartets are another matter...again I prefer the Luxman sound. So now I wonder what improvement in clarity, without loss of a full-bodied sound, the new generation of DAC chips might offer. Perhaps you have some thoughts regarding this. Of course these choices overlap with digital formats.......
yours...B&W802D2's etc....and listen more or less exclusively to classical music. I had a Denon 1713UD universal player and replaced it with the Oppo 105d, which improved on clarity at the expense of harshness. I then added a Luxman DA-06, based like the Denon on BB 1795 chips, and believe I achieved clarity greater than that offered by the Oppo, with full-bodied resonance particularly complementary to piano music, and with overall sweetness and smoothness. Annie Fischer's celebrated recordings of the Beethoven piano sonatas, which manifest some treble thinness ? related to her partial 'reworking' of her venerated Boesendorfer, sound wonderful with the Luxman. String quartets are another matter...again I prefer the Luxman sound. So now I wonder what improvement in clarity, without loss of a full-bodied sound, the new generation of DAC chips might offer. Perhaps you have some thoughts regarding this. Of course these choices overlap with digital formats.......