Loki1957, I have a Sony 777ES SacD I use as a transport(which is great as a transport) I'm using a modified Art Dio as a dac. The Art Dio/Sony combination sounded much better than the Sony playing regular cds or Sacds. I bought the ECT dac(i will get it next week). I want to see if the ECT dac sounds better than the Art Dio. Then i will see if the winner dac sounds better than the Sony playing SACDs(like before). The Sony is a great transport but not a very good CD player.Last, but not least i'm curious how much I'm missing by using the Sony as a Transport with the ECT dac vs. The ECT CD Player!!!!!
