Is Sabre DACs generally aggressive? I hade the 83se for a while and really liked it for it´s non aggressive nature. I don´t consider DAC19 aggressive at all. Ref9 with DSP 5 has a bit more attack. I have a to small and crappy room for my 5.1 speaker system so that was really helpful. I haven´t encountered any other DAC that was as soft and smooth like the Sabre32 in the 83se. I sold it to see if I could make due with a 990$ Sony BDP-S370 to eventually fund a 95 not due to being displeased by it. The only thing that bothered me was the DVD upscaling. But I suppose there is no bluray player that get up to PC standard in this regard? anti noise filters and such was unusable on the oppo as well as the 370 due to smearing the image to much for example. Do the 95 fair better here?
One thing that worries is it´s not fairing to well in some swedish audiophile magazine that is very anal and measure the ins and out of everything. A lot of bugs mentioned. Handling the different channels incorrectly and other features not working yet?
Didn´t hae much issues with the 83se but then I just used it´s primary functions.