You have great gear and I love the presentation diagrams
you created (in Visio?)!
As a former UX-1 LE owner, I'm curious why you chose to skip
the high quality balanced DACs in the UX-1LE itself and route
everything over unencrypted digital link to the Benchmark DAC?
Does this actually sound better in your system? How does SACD down-mixed to 2-channel PCM sound once it goes to your DAC over whatever digital link you are using?
If I've misunderstood your setup, please let me know.

