[StevoRocket]

A quote from the Decware site mentioned above...

Since the magic is in the interpretation of the recording, I'll say it again, extreme accuracy and specs will all but ensure that you never hear it. A good MC cartridge is a mechanical analogue device. For this reason, CD's even in the new high res formats are not likely to have the same magic. So if you're waiting to see at the expense of owning a good vinyl setup, don't wait. You'll notice lately that in the high end of DACs we now have jitter devices, harmonic recovery devices, and dozens of other gizmo's that push a DAC to a higher level of fidelity (when they work). It's pretty obvious to me that all of these have one thing in common, and that is to attempt to recapture some of the interpretive magic of a good cartridge.