Check with Sujay, he has a Burmester 911 mk3, 088 pre, into rockport aviors. He recently bought the Balanced Lampi 7 and loves it. Also owns the AMG TT with Benz LPS. You can choose to spend on a Golden Gate, but B7 should be sufficient.
Thanks Kedar for chiming in on my behalf....... I agree that the Big 7 is as good as it gets and one probably doesn't need to spend on the GG. I have the Burmester 061 CDP which I now use only as transport. I have tried the Bryston BDA-3 and the BADA alpha DAC and the lampizator is miles ahead, as a package, in dynamics, presence, tone and soundstage width and depth. Actually, the sheer amount of drive in the lampizator is unusual for a DAC and I have to keep my 088 down -6db to compensate and prevent distortion. I recently got the resistors changed to reduce the gain and strangely the dynamics have improved even further.
Obviously I haven't tried everything out there but I can say with conviction that in my system, I haven't had a better DAC so far. You may probably get a tad more transparency by paying lot more but imv, music is about the complete package and transparency is not everything........please don't get me wrong - my balanced big 7 is as transparent as the the Berkeley alpha DAC with better separation, front to back layering and micro dynamics. I think it's got to do with the DHT output and the power supplies.
Enough said.....in short, can't go wrong with the lampizator. And by the way, 99% of my music is PCM
I hope I have been of some help
Cheers
Sujay