Yep, ct, you will say as often as you can that there are great DACs of both types. But there will always be people like George (and seemingly me, too) that will always hear something we like better in an R2R...
A DAC I like upgraded the model and in turn also went from R2R to DS. It sounded “better” within some typical audiophile categories, like tone, timbre, harmonics, among other, and it gets closer in to the Instruments inner details...but something was also lost. There is just something out on the edges of the information that sounds more natural when it’s R2R. Some of us will gravitate towards that and others will want the ‘more obvious’. But regardless, you are right; there are great DACs for all tastes and ears.
A DAC I like upgraded the model and in turn also went from R2R to DS. It sounded “better” within some typical audiophile categories, like tone, timbre, harmonics, among other, and it gets closer in to the Instruments inner details...but something was also lost. There is just something out on the edges of the information that sounds more natural when it’s R2R. Some of us will gravitate towards that and others will want the ‘more obvious’. But regardless, you are right; there are great DACs for all tastes and ears.