Which still doesn't sound as good as vinyl records on an SL1200 with Ortofon carts.
I wonder why spending a fortune on professional analogue equipment would sound better than the cheapest possible digital equipment?
Vinyl production may have improved now that it's specialist, but back in the day the quality was terrible as they kept using the stamps after they wore out to save money. I doubt there is any modern Vinyl that hasn't been passed through an ADC/DAC, so it's impossible for those to be inherently "better".
People think those gold plated HDMI cables give a better picture too.
If it also had a 16bit DAC with an AHI driver I'd gladly pay more.
It supports WAV PCM, assuming that means it can play uncompressed audio then it has what you refer to as a DAC and it's just missing the AHI driver (pretty much all sound chips invented have at least one DAC, whether it's directly accessible to users or not).
