Carl you are a website snob.
Audio Research's website has gotta be on your all-time worst list, but it's the pudding that counts, not the cup.
I agree though, that pudding in a nice cup is the ideal. Hmm, I'm suddenly kinda hungry...
Mike, I am very intrigued by the Lessloss propaganda. That would be really fun to hear. Non-oversampling with a PCM-1794 per channel, right? The Altmann uses that tiny little 8 pin Phillips DAC chip for both channels. But of course Lessloss DAC chip is not slathered with tree resin to hide the chip number, er.. ahhh, I mean to boost the musical ecstacy.
There's some nice stuff out there. All in good time... haha