Wonderful review Vince.  And I totally agree with everything you've written.

Thanks Paul, and thank you for our back and forth PMs about this unit. It was nice to bounce impressions off of you and @twister6 during the review process. You guys are awesome.

The DAC chip itself seems to have odd THD+N behaviour:
http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/AKM%20Semiconductor%20Inc.%20PDFs/AK4414.pdf

The reported 107 dB THD+N figure is only for 44.1 kHz sampling and with a 0 dBFS signal. Even with just a -60 dBFS signal at 44.1 kHz, it decreases significantly to -57 dB, or 0.141% THD+N.

Very nicely written! I particularly liked the focal point for the TL;DR people. The LP5 does look beautiful.

Now I have to try and figure out how to change your language, because what you just said sounds like Chinese to me LOL, all said in fun. Sorry bro, I'm a consumer based thinker/reviewer. That technical info was copied from the website that is selling them. I am not educated in programming XYZ and so on. I wish I was...

Bravo! Great review!

Nice to see that all positives and negatives were presented equally!

Nice review Vince! Very retro kind of look would look really good sitting on my desk.