yes; I am smitten by what the Trinity dac is doing with PCM. my over decade long negative perspective toward redbook relative to dsd and then 2xdsd has been wiped away completely. I've now been listening to the Trinity for 10 days and for the first week I basically surfed my hard drive hour after hour in wonderment of how these familiar faces could be so much more than I recalled.
I had been eyeing all my 3000 old CD friends sitting on my shelf unloved for so long. in the last 5 years I don't think I've played more than 1 or 2 CD discs a month on average......other than when I'm testing gear. so over the last few days I've burned 40+ CD's to disc and I've been loving how new, fresh and alive sounding they are. my music server is now 5 years old, and I know there are much better now. so with Elberoth's guidance, I'm building a CAPS v4 hot-rodded with a LPS to feed the Trinity with a worthy source. it will also up the performance of the Playback Designs for dsd. I've got all the parts for that except the LPS. when that is done I'm going to move my old server out of the room and set up a ripping station with a 50 disc Kodak loader that can rip all my 2500 remaining CD's so I can access them on the Trinity.
i have not shopped for CD's in forever; but this weekend that is just what i did.
Mike, glad to learn you appear to be joining the ranks of those that have come around to the view (which I have been advocating for a while) that with the right hardware, all this fretting over formats is just splitting hairs, and musically satisfactory sound reproduction can be achieved with any format including 44/16. Not suggesting CD will ever be as good as master tape, but it is good enough to produce enjoyable music without worrying about resolution limitations, allowing us to focus our attention on content.....