Hey guys!
I'm Dan's friend and I'm from Pittsburgh, too.
Dan has helped me with his 'golden ears' over the years to fine-tune my system.
My priority is 2ch vinyl. I have a MMF-7 turntable with a Pro-Ject Speed Box, AT150MLX Cartridge feeding a Heavily Modified Carver C-19 Hybrid Pre-Amp with integral Tube Phono section attenuated by a Rotel RB-1090 Amp. My speakers are "the Twins" - a Jon Marsh design, 68 Liter Towers I built myself.
After hearing files of digital hi-res recordings made from vinyl that Dan downloaded on his hard drive and ran thru his system I am convinced that I can obtain 99% of the sound quality of my LP’s by ripping them to my hard drive. We have already experimented with my system and ripped some vinyl tracks, but I don’t have a good DAC for playback.
We are both very interested in this DAC.