If you are looking for an "analog" like sound without "digital irritations" but room filling delicaty the Metrum Octave is for you. If you are looking for the highest possible detail revealing resolution, even when it is a wee bit fake and sounds ever so slightly phony, the Octave might be not for you.   I was looking for the perfect sound and after some transistor amps, I went tube with a The Fisher X-100 A. To have an "analog" sounding DAC I went the NOS - non-oversampling way with an Moodlab Dice. After buying an Antique Sound Lab 1003 tube...