Topic: Great 24/96 DACs?

[BobW]

its a great box.  benchmark nailed it w/that one.  Its high time for the "next gen" from then though.  complete w/a remote and firewire/USB input.

fwiw...a group of us here doing some listening at my house decided that the Grace 901 sounded better than the benchmark. 
well, let me correctly say that it sounded very different, and we all preffered that to the benchmark. 

I have also heard the m902 and like it allot.
I'm just not sure that I like it twice as much as the Benchmark, if you follow my reasoning.
I do like the cross-feed circuit, although the separated channel image in the standard mode does provide clarity and imaging.

Benchmark's choice has been apparently to pander to audiophiles, with the new silver box version without rackmount ears.
No changes, no USB/FW and no LEDS or LCDs. 
Someone is schooled on maximizing the ROI from R&D, it seems.

Hey, I'm running out of acronyms....