Since this thread has come up and I was the original poster I thought I would share my near 18 month report. I love the Analog Dac. I also have the UMT Plus transport, ( now called the UMT V ), for playing actual discs. I gave up vinyl for this when someone with a desire to get into vinyl made me an offer on all my analog equip and the entire LP collection. No regrets at all. I play discs, mainly SACD and have an Aurender N100H ( with SSD ) and play high res downloads, ripped CDs ( use dbpoweramp to rip to a sinology NAS ) and play tidal. I am ripping fewer CD's as most of what I have I can find on Tidal and it sounds great. I have the musical liquid sound I had with my vinyl and now I have a few million albums to choose from. The music I really like I will buy a high resolution download or SACD. I actually listen to music more since I went to the MSB analog dac. Now, if I had unlimited space and money, I would get vinyl again as well but as I don't, I am pretty happy with the current set up.