When is digital going to get the soul of music?

Plato, I am still waiting on your response. You really helped me with the Signal Cable Silver Resolutions for the Nuforce. I trust what you say.

Let me disclose my personal relationship with Ori of Oritek Audio. I went to his house to purchase a pair of X-1's. I spent 3 hours listening to his system while waiting out rush hour. I then emailed him a bit, mostly criticizing his X-1's in my system. This turned out to be interaction problems with my Signal Cable Silver Resolution interconnects. He emailed me, saying if you want your PRAT, my X-2's have it. I went to buy them, and spent about 2 hours listening to his system while having my Nuforce's updated. I've emailed him since, raving about their sound. Is that a personal relationship?

That's exactly the kind of information that gives perspective to a one sentence recommendation. Thank you.

do you guys hear that........wait there it goes again.

If you experiment with speakers, you can get pretty close to it now.

I think speakers are the most vital part of the chain.

I am listening to old JBL Lancer speakers with Alnico woofers, and sansui receiver - with a sony CD player, and the sound is enjoyable.

Sometimes it brings tears to my eyes and that's good enough for me...

I believe in alnico !

I just wanted to mention a few things here about digital. One well-respected reviewer says that he has "a 1985 chip, no oversampling, no digital filter, and a proprietary tube-based, re-construction filter at the end. I know that someone here recommended oversampling. Someone else said that advances in the last 4-5 years have elevated cd playback. A designer said that DSP corrections are where it's at. There was one other thing mentioned, but I think it might have to do with what Meitner does(I can't find it.)? Any further thoughts?