Whatever happened to Paul Bolin? Does he still write for Stereophile? I haven't seen him review anything in a long while. I really liked his reviews. He was probably my favorite reviewer since he heard things in much the same way I do and I thought that his reviews of the components that I heard were right on the money.

After more than a decade without my vinyl I'm pulling it back out in style. I've got a nice collection of around 1,000 albums, going back to the late 1950s. The disks are mostly well cared for since I used to use a carbon fibre brush before every playing and I always had relatively good cartridges and turntables. (Grado/Lux).

The Esoteric is a universal player, which is really the way to go, BUT the EMMLABS DCCSA controler for 3X the price upsamples Cd to 5.6Mghz AND makes PCM into DSD...DSD smokes any CD PCM...hmmmm, does teh Esoteric up convert to DSD then analog out that? I didn't finish reading, Esoteric is 1/3rd teh price, but....Emmlabs is out there at $13,500 and it don't do DVD-A.....but does it do DSD better than teh Esoteric, 3X better?