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Seasons Greetings to all at CA. Recently, 2 products; The Rex DAC from BAT, and LessLoss' upgraded C-MARC Super power cable, managed to garner my full attention. I have already taken advantage of LessLoss' upgrade offer to order 3 of the new Super C-MARC's which simple logic dictates should offer a substantial improvement over the original configuration. They replace a single triaxial cable with 3 of them in a flat braid arrangement familiar from the DFPC. Once the conductors have been painstakingly combined at the terminations, the new cable will provide an aggragate of 4.6 mm^2 of the complex fractal Litz conductor. I was impressed with the single-run cables Louis made for my 2 power conditioners, but realized I was cutting it rather close on ampacity for my large unit which is capable of providing 15A at 120V. I'll use one of the new ones on it, one on my Accuphase A50V power amp., and the third on my dCS Debussy DAC. *On the subject of the Debussy and new equipment, I might also mention that the new Rev. 2.30 Firmware should have been made available last month. It will enable native DSD processing as well as 384kHz support for Debussy owners.* I was totally taken back to see BAT release a DAC. I live in DE where the firm has its headquarters, and have been in for upgrades and one minor repair to my VK50SE preamp (now 51SE). Probably 5 years ago, I asked Vlad, the lead technican, if he anticipated them doing a DAC. He said he didn't think so due to troubles with the VK-D55SE CD player. He mentioned mostly issues related to the transport which you, obviously, don't have with a stsnd alone DAC. Vlad also shared that Victor's (BAT's designer and founder) background was in analog, not digial, designs. Imagine my surprise when I paged through the Music Direct catalog and saw a Rex DAC! They enlisted the digital expertise from Andreas Kotch of Playback Designs. I won't pretend to know any more about the Rex than what you can read on Music Direct's website: www.musicdirect.com/dac/BAT-Rex-DAC I love the sound of BAT's gear and was also very impressed with the Playback MPS-5 CD player. This has very high potential, but I haven't read any reviews or had the opportunity to audition it. I thought maybe some of you had...