IOTAVX SA vs Yamaha A-S301

I'm getting a more natural sound presentation via my external Musical Fidelity V90 DAC, which uses a Burr Brown PCM1795 chipset rather than the onboard Wolfson DAC. That said its pretty darn close and I expect the SA3 will change its sonic signature after a break-in period.

It begins with deep bass, piano is sweet sounding and the tenor sax also comes in with the perfect amount of uh, warmth and hue, and then there's symb...