Actually the intial plan was sell my sources get the apl denon and then move the stax rig down into the same room as the speaker rig. But of course there turned out to not be enough room, so I needed a 2nd source again.
The modwright should get here by the end of the week.
Yeah their blog talks about the iPhone client coming out yesterday and with them offering the first 100,000 downloads as freebies I'm sure they are getting hammered.
Logitech hasn't manage to screw up anything with SlimDevices yet so as long as they handle this purchase in a similar manner it should work out well in the end for UE. Bigger R&D budget and greater economies of scale and access to Logitech's distribution channels.
There really aren't all that many sacd players around, not counting the universal players most of which don't have digital inputs. You'll have a very hard time finding a sacd capable player that also has digital inputs in the $1k range.
Except in the case of RSA in my opinion the rather craptacular designs and implementation of them directly lead to the less than stellar sound quality that they have. Ray does have the build quality thing down pat though.
With SP most of the concerns up till this SquareWave w/ dac have to do with crappy build quality and poor customer service. While those two factors are certainly annoying as hell they don't directly cause bad sound quality all the time. I suppose if the build quality is so horrible that shit is falling apart then yes certainly sound quality would suffer but for the most part that doesn't seem to be the case.