I have owned one (24/192 version) for a couple of years and can't bring myself to part with it. I had it modified by Audio Magic and put some telefunken tubes in it and it just sounds like music to me. Vocals are full and real sounding. The bass is low and tight and the highs are silky smooth. At the same time there is depth and detail in the soundstage. I also own a Camelot Round Table mkIII which upsamples to 24/192. Camelot feels that it is one of the best DVD/CD players out there but for most CDs I still prefer straight 16/44 out of the Round Table into the Kora. The Camelot is thin sounding in comparison. I don't know if its the tubes or what but the Kora simply sounds better to me. The Kora is a 24/192 DAC but it does not upsample (at least not the version I have). I think its certainly worth a listen. There should be other threads here on Audiogon unless they have been deleted. There was a lot of discussion about this DAC a couple of years ago.
