franklyshankly
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Well, all I know is that the Pure with the KICAS/HD650 was a joke ... the KICAS with the CD player was better ... but the Pure with my Rotel receiver is the best. It would be really helpful if someone could test the Pure DAC sound quality against a DAC like the HDP, NFB2,3,11,12, etc ... I have a feeling that an external DAC, regardless of the numbers, will outperform the DAC in the Pure. I don't think this is really knocking the Pure because its main function seems to be extracting a clean signal (something that competitors charge 5-10x more for), the DAC seems like a nice afterthought.