Ian - you know as well as I do that there are many more convenience issues with vinyl than turning the record over.  I'm not going to list them all again.  If they're not an issue for you that's fine.  Me?  If I can get sound I'm more than happy with without those issues then why suffer them for sound improvements in certain areas which I don't think are worth it?

The DAC64 is better than my DAC20 in many ways but the most obvious is, that the music has much more life and emotional involvement.  There's bags more detail and mid range clarity and improvements in all the usual areas one looks for but it's the way you just "hear the music" with the DAC64 that I love, I'd have that even if there were no other improvements.

Perhaps I could have got similar "life and emotional involvement" with a TT, I don't know and, frankly, I don't much care since a TT wouldn't play my CDs :MILD:  Robbo summed it up nicely with: "I really have no compelling reason to get a TT, even though I acknowledge that vinyl has many strengths."

Michael.