falconquest - If I understand correctly, Soekris is merely winding down its US operation, and will continue to produce/sell from the EU and expand the product line. Even so, there is added financial risk when buying relatively unknown audio gear from overseas suppliers who don't sell in the US... if that is where you live. If you live in the EU where the company is better known, that's another story. Assuming you order the Soekris dac, will there be a right of return? Synergy and user preference is so important.
The point I was trying to make earlier was not to put too much faith in the ability of dacs to correct problems upstream. Some dacs are much better than others in dealing with noise and jitter upstream. The best are very expensive. The Holo Audio Spring, which is supposed to be a very fine dac, is often used with other devices to cleanup the data stream.
So to briefly recap my story, I tried to find audio "perfection" with several better, costly dacs but found more satisfaction by improving the music streamer.
The point I was trying to make earlier was not to put too much faith in the ability of dacs to correct problems upstream. Some dacs are much better than others in dealing with noise and jitter upstream. The best are very expensive. The Holo Audio Spring, which is supposed to be a very fine dac, is often used with other devices to cleanup the data stream.
So to briefly recap my story, I tried to find audio "perfection" with several better, costly dacs but found more satisfaction by improving the music streamer.
