have had a lot very expensive and famous digital stuff in 20 yrs of highend hobby. Since 6 months i have a DP77, which feeds my active monitors without any pre between. DP77´s quality of CD´s and SACD´s is very very close. It fullfills my requirements to 100%. Another advantage: Here in Germany we have digital radio called DAB. The digital output of the Sony DAB tuner gives its signal into the digital input of the DP77. I never had before such a good radio sound.
regards Wolfgang
regards Wolfgang