I'm very satisfied with my 950's stereo performance. As Gonk noted (I guess I say that a lot) if you're using an analog output from your CD player, you want to not convert it back to digital if you can. On the 1050 that means using the 5.1 input, of which you have only one. On the 950, however, any input can be configured to work that way, or to convert to digital. This is what I do most of the time.

Sometimes I prefer the more enveloping sound that DPL-II provides, in which case I switch to the CD player's digital outputs and use the DACs in my 950.

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net