And from my understanding, the DF version does not support 16/44 (reading the website) and if I wish to feed it a high-res signal, I will need the HiFace (or an equivalent). But yes, on the other hand, a lot of posts on Head-fi are misleading in that many consumers including myself are mislead to believe that there are major differences in the use of a product, but really, in all honesty, the difference is not as big as the words used lead many to believe. Many people outside Head-fi are unhappy with the way things are thrown about like FOTMs over here where many superlatives are used, and many things are claimed.
Also, I find it poor that people with the knowledge of all this are not actually sharing this knowledge and joining discussions where misleading information is thrown in, especially when they have read it and "know" it to be false. Again, the forum was meant to help people, meet, talk about like interests and to make informed choices.