Ratso: I'm not familiar with the moonlab, but I recently went down a similar path as you and wound up adopting a similar buying strategy: outboard DAC, not insanely priced, hopefully one touted to be a giant killer -- or at least, would give the Lavry and Benchmark a run for the money.
I wound up with the $300 Musiland MD-10 purchased from Pacific Valve (I believe they carry LITE DACs as well). Like you, I was a little skeptical it would be clearly, demonstrably better than what I had. In the end, it was, and I have been very pleased with the purchase and am running the digital outputs of both my SB and CD player to it. Anyway, this is a roundabout way of trying to convince you that you made a good choice and to trust your ears. You don't have to spend $1,000+ these days to get a good DAC. One more thing, if your DAC is anything like mine, it will benefit by 50-100 hours of burn in. -- Videodrome ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Videodrome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11727 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36011 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
