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Worlds best DAC

Went to CES this year to work on my transition to high Rez digital. I've heard many of the highly regarded players in my room or in others systems in the past. I'm actually very happy with my current cd based sound. As I listened to various DACS playing CD then high Rez, I was not bowled over. High rez was better, but only slightly so. The best (and most different) sound I heard happened to have one similarity. They were 2 non oversampling DACS with tube analog stages(Zanden and Ypsilon). These were without question the most natural sounding digital systems I heard at the show. They made CDsound miles ahead of high Rez. What gives?

PS: I understand the limitations of show auditions.
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metralla
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state of the art software application that provides either real time conversion of DSD 1x and DSD 2x to 176.4 kHz 24 bit PCM during playback or conversion to 176.4 kHz 24 bit AIFF or WAV files.

OK, that's pretty surprising but definitely interesting.

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mrtennis
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subjectively there is no best anything. objectively there is.
singleendedsingle
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Damn, i really want to see how good is the trinity. At 50k price range, it must be astounding.
4orreal
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Iam not trying to hijack this thread, but a review of the Trinity Preamp was just posted and below the link. The reveiwer went craaaazy. I think the Trinity DAC, Preamp, and Phono are superb!

http://positive-feedback.com/Issue70/trinity_preamplifier.htm
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rx8man
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Dacs such as the NeoDio, Stahltek, CH Precision, Wadax and Audio Note "may" have taken a slight second to the Trinity for now, but these other designers will inevitably catch up sooner or later.
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