Quote Originally Posted by hermanv

For CD sound my personal opinion is that the DAC overrules the other components in the reproductive chain. Wothout a good conversion process (read uncolored and detailed) all other issues become very much secondary.

My home built pasive pre uses Vishay resistors and Shallco silver swithces. With pure silver wiring and Cardas connectors sound is both sweet and detailed.
Herman, I have to agree with you on this to some extent. In my system, tube rolling in my preamp and DAC shows that swaping tubes in the DAC makes the biggest impact in the sound.