Ludwig will back me up on this, but an 861v4 with linear power supply upgrade (�500), ID40, and OA03 unbalanced analogue output card, sounds quite superb (better than the MS600 for analogue) ... and can be had for less than half the price of the (admittedly great) 818v2.

If you bought another DAC, would you still want to make use of the apodizing up-sampling filter in the MS600 or go with whatever up-sampling option the 3rd party DAC provided?

I wonder if there is a way to configure the MS600 to output "native" rate audio without up- or down-sampling? Probably not.


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