We have some experience in this issue.
Last year we had a client trade up a much newer DCS piece then the older DCS piece you have, he traded in a Pucchini a $18k Dac/CD player, and the client purchased a Lumin A1 which sounded signfigently better.
Digital technology has moved way forward in 20 years.
We also did a comparison to a $15k Meitner Dac to a DCS stack Delius, Purcell, and transport. and again the older DCS was far outclassed by the newer front end.
Ultimately the client went with a server which he just upgraded to a brand new Innuous Zenith.
Last night we demoed a T+A Dac 8DSD wtih a Inouous Zenith with a $2,500.00 USB cable and a high end ethernet cable upsamped Roon to 384k and it was very analog like with a remarkable soundstage.
A Zenith Server is $3,500.00
a T+A DAC 8 DSD is $4,200.00
$7,700.00 plus the best USB and ethernet cables you can afford to use and you have the world of digital.
Full Roon server, Digital Storage, CD ripping and full Tidal, you allso have one of the world's best Dac's one derrived from $22k reference digital product, and it is an excellent headphone amp to boot.
The surprising thing is that this current setup doesnt not allow for DSD conversion in Roon, we are working with Inouous to remedy this, howerver, the sound quality was so stunning on PCM that the two people we were demoing for didn't care and are both looking at this combination.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
Last year we had a client trade up a much newer DCS piece then the older DCS piece you have, he traded in a Pucchini a $18k Dac/CD player, and the client purchased a Lumin A1 which sounded signfigently better.
Digital technology has moved way forward in 20 years.
We also did a comparison to a $15k Meitner Dac to a DCS stack Delius, Purcell, and transport. and again the older DCS was far outclassed by the newer front end.
Ultimately the client went with a server which he just upgraded to a brand new Innuous Zenith.
Last night we demoed a T+A Dac 8DSD wtih a Inouous Zenith with a $2,500.00 USB cable and a high end ethernet cable upsamped Roon to 384k and it was very analog like with a remarkable soundstage.
A Zenith Server is $3,500.00
a T+A DAC 8 DSD is $4,200.00
$7,700.00 plus the best USB and ethernet cables you can afford to use and you have the world of digital.
Full Roon server, Digital Storage, CD ripping and full Tidal, you allso have one of the world's best Dac's one derrived from $22k reference digital product, and it is an excellent headphone amp to boot.
The surprising thing is that this current setup doesnt not allow for DSD conversion in Roon, we are working with Inouous to remedy this, howerver, the sound quality was so stunning on PCM that the two people we were demoing for didn't care and are both looking at this combination.
Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ