Cheers for the insights, a couple of questions
Is that comment cd via K-03 v hi-rez or are you also talking about sacd v hi-rez files?
Also, have you tried hi-rez files via the K-03s digital inputs?
Sorry, should have been more clear here. All mentions of High Res were related to streaming files to the players either via USB (Esoteric and Bricasti) or UPnP (Boulder).
I can't really comment on the SACD performance of the K-03 too much as I only have about 12 SACDs. Of those 9 are from the RCA LSC re-issues and my preference there has always been for the original vinyl, followed by the XRCDs, followed by the LP re-issues, with the SACDs missing some of the magic. Oddly, though, I have purchased a few of those RCA titles as 176/24 downloads and prefer those over the SACDs even though the downloads were taken from the DSD masters... strange...