Does anyone have a digital system that is as involving as their analogue front end?

You completely misunderstood what I was trying to say but…

Cool. Let us know how you like the MA3. 

I prefer digital, and my digital front end blows the top off my analog, particularly for DSD

As others have mentioned here, a better DAC is where you will start seeing gains in your digital system.   I have a Bricasti M3 with the network card which I stream Qobuz to directly via JPlay.  The Meitner MA3, being on a similar level, will show you the start of improvement you can get.   And you don’t even need a streamer.  
 

Good luck with the audition.  

I don’t but I can see how you could get there.

I’ve been doing analog for 20+ years and I have a very good system that’s also very dialed in. I just got into digital. There’s quite a gap but that was intentional.

However, now that I’ve experienced digital, I like it and I look forward to making it really solid and significantly close the gap. If it exceeds my analog, I’d probably push the analog a bit further. And so it goes.

My salesperson at TMR contacted EMM Labs about whether I can upgrade the Meitner MA3. He said that the people at EMM Labs were very friendly and I can contact them myself, without an intermediary, about upgraading to  MA3i. So, I'll see how things on the homefront go, but maybe in a year or so, based on what the MA3 owners have said on this thread and elsewhere about how the improvement is worth it.

But I do want to say one thing. When I was maybe 7 years old, in the mid-fifties, Annie Oakley was a series on TV. I have read some of the greatest poetry known to man. I studied poetry and I have written it. One of the most memorable lines, however, was when Annie Oakley told her younger brother, "No matter how fast you are there will always be someone faster." No matter how good we've made our systems, there will always be better systems and better pieces of equipment. At some point you just have to lean back and "love the one you're with."