Not my jones since I scored Brian's Bel Canto DAC 1.1
, but an audiophile friend of mine just called me breathlessly today to give me the news:
He's a tube fan, and has a spectacularly imaging system of all-tube gear with these great swiss speakers that he's built over the years. Its astonishingly real. I freakin love it. Can't remember any of his equipment details right now of course.. but he bought one of those cheapish modded, uh... citipulse or zualhu or something DACs with USB for his portable tube system. For a laugh he hooked it up to his main stereo and found it didn't sound near as good as the analogue out of his tubed CD player. So he tried the USB to his laptop and was so floored with delight that its instantly officially permanent, and he's full bore into to computer transport, reading up on flac, EAC, and friends! hehehe...