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A warm and/or analog-like DAC is certainly a must when building around an original 009, but I still feel these kinds of systems will benefit greatly by going to the 009S. I don't feel like any DAC can tame the 009 nearly as much as a vinyl source or especially T2 can.
Yeah if there was a dac out there that could come close to vinyl it would be a different story with me and the sr-009. A big record fan that I know said the new benchmark dac really floats his boat but I'm awfully skeptical. I was lucky enough to own a sr-009 and kgsshv and Pavane ( a $4k dac at the time I bought it) . Honestly the sr-009 could not separate itself much from the 007mk1 and hd800/dsha4 that I also had. Different sound sig.'s for sure but all ultimately fairly even steven with one another. Enter in some really nice record players, direct to disc records and decently high end cart's and phono pre's and wow the sr-009 really, really separate's itself from the 007mk1 and hd800.
Maybe when I own some SX-1000 Labo's, NS-10000's, Grand Scepter's, APM-8's or if I really want to wish on a star SS-R10's I will go for the sr-009's. I kind of like the forgiving nature of speakers with records as far as pops and ticks go and thus feel like I need to put some more funds towards that first.
It is also very hard for me to recommend spending $2k or more on a dac. My newest dac only set me back $1k and it is def. my fav. dac but even my simple ps-6750 and dl-110 and homc phono pre out of my C-2301 gets up there and probably best's it with the few mint records that I have. My tts-3000, ma-505, 20x2H with the same pre kind of leaves my dac in the dust and the gt2000 and bl-91 with the heavy gold platter left the tts-3000 in the dust with the same 20x2H. Sadly the gt2000 and bl-91 would not fit into my current setup but yeah scary, scary good sources for $1-2k.