Best Bang for your Buck DAC ?


I just realized I’m in the market for a DAC , I don’t want to spend a fortune on a DAC either . I picked up a drangonfly cobalt a while back and am unimpressed  so I moved it to my CPU and sounds really good on my system there which when I bought it figured I would do anyway since it was my first DAC purchase . There are so many DACs I have no clue , how high up on the returns chart can I go at say $1,000 before I run into heavy Diminished returns resistance. I’m open to buying used . I was thinking about a Schitt made in the states ? Anyone’s take on best bang for buck DACs? 
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Jjss49

I appreciated your informative post about the rme and musical paradise DACs.

Can you please share what preamp, amp, and speakers you were using?

Thanks for listening.

Dsper
@twoch,
duder, try not to be like me. you will get tired fast of anything under $2000.....

Twoch, I agree with your assessment. There is a whole big world out there with $5,000 and up DACS. Read the end of the thread here: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/dac-choices-5-000-to-7-000?page=4

What may not come through in my review is that the Mystique V3, which is like "old" now, blew away the Soekris in musicality. Just no comparison in this case between $900 new and $3,000 used.

FWIW and thanks for listening,

Dsper,