Saturn, that extra "detail and crispness" that you hear, how can you be so sure those are the missing part of the original recording? you probably wouldn't want to hear this but perhaps you could achieve the same result by simply turning up the treble? LOL
I don't know how much you paid for that MF A3.2 cd player, but a quick search on audioreview came up with a MSRP of $1799.00, keep in mind that you're comparing it to a $89.00 soundcard, I'm sure that MF probably has a better DAC and looks great on the rack, I'm not trying to knock on your high end stuff or anything, but does your MF sound 20x better than the M-Audio 7.1?
Personally I'm not going to sink couple hundred bucks on something that I can achieve with merely $69~$89. :-)
