**Those dozen plus steps are not often explained on the music player sites or even setup guides and documents. Every program requires a dozen or more steps to work. **Setup to play these files remains a gigantic PITA. We played the David Elias 'Rodeo' song today and the entire room was amazed. **Pure DSD and Analog to DSD files such as those from Blue Coast sound astonishingly good.
So natural and lifelike in playback that I would suggest maybe that spending more than $2K may not make economic sense given the rapid rate of change in digital technology. Really lifelike sound quality that I don't often get from even hirez PCM. In case anyone wants some observations on what I saw at the DSD revolution.I present The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. I just wrote these thoughts up on the whole experience and am copying them here for you (based on Mac installation). Audirvana+ was the easiest program to get up and running but it was not easy at all but it sounds terrific. Sam, we did a big DSD event at the local club today.
