Now that reviewer is my kind of man! I quote:

"Absolute sonic transparency is a concept innocent audiophiles are
uncomfortable with, believing that all audio components - CD players,
preamplifiers, amplifiers, tuners, all of them - exhibit varying
degrees of soundstaging, front-to-back depth, grain, air, etc. That it
isn't so, except in the case of loudspeakers, is a fact calmly accepted
by professional engineers but not by the high-end pundits and high-end
manufacturers, who would be out of business if the truth were to sink
in universally."

I would have been interested in this DAC, for the purposes of
converting the signal from my lossless files on my PC, were it not so
expensive (given my modest means). Instead I went for the Perpetual
Technologies P3A DAC. I believe this too has excellent measured
performance, even better when paired with the P1A "digital correction
engine" (or summat like that!). Sounds excellent to my ears, through
my Stax phones and Rotel/Dynaudio speaker set up. Indeed its probably
the only piece of equipment out of the dozens I've had in my digital
replay system over 20 years or so that has brought about a really
worthwhile improvement in performance. I'm reasonably satisfied that
my PC and £350 DAC is pretty much a match for any digital replay
system at any price.