Did you get the chance to hear and experience APL or Playback Designs at some point?
We've got a client who's very sensitive to the rendering of piano in general and the higher octaves and frequencies specifically. He's recently chosen the Playback Designs MPS-8 (CD/DAC) after a period of serious evaluation both in our showroom and at home in his own system. The naturalness and organic qualities of this DAC without loosing out in resolution, definition and separation is very special indeed.
/ Marcus,
www.perfect-sense.se
Very interesting. And it should be noted that you have a remarkable collection of brands available for your clients to listen to (including MSB, CH Precision, Ypsilon, Playback Designs, Accuphase, Ayre, PS Audio, Audionet, Mola Mola, CAD, Lindemann, CEC, Norma, SW1X, Canon, COS and Primary).
This is about Boulder, but would love to hear more (either here or elsewhere) about your observations of the CH, APL and Playback vs the Ypsilon which seems closest to the Zanden digital design-wise).