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Originally Posted by substance

Here is the common opinion

Cirrus logic/crystal: excellent on high frequencies
Wolfson: tight bass, good detail and imaging
Burr brown sigma delta: very good mids, good detail and imaging
Burr. Brown multi bit: very warm mids, tight bass, excellent staging, great detail
Ess sabre: combination of all, excellent bass, a little different on mids(some don't like it)

Mvp871 is a signa delta design. You need to go way back for multibit designs. Ess is cheap and easy to implement. It seems to match or better most dacs.

As I said mx150/151/160 digitizes all incoming analog inputs so no point in going analog. However I doubt the mx accepts dsd over hdmi. Mvp901 will have to convert dsd to pcm. Pcm over hdmi suffers jitter unfortunately. You might want to look into mx-121 or 122 which have true analog pass through( doesn't convert to digital).

Thanks for the great insights everyone. Specifically, are the analog stereo inputs digitized on the MX151 as well? That would not make much sense to me, especially the phono inputs.