One DAC/integrated you could be happy with forever?

The Lyngdorf 2170 may not be "forever" for me, but it's certainly gotten me to an expansive plateau in my system upgrades. I'm sure the new 3400 is equally as good. I did quite a bit of side by side testing when I purchased the 2170 against some pretty stiff and expensive competition. I was very surprised this class D-ish amp bested all comers SS and Tube. Both utilizing analog inputs and digital using it's internal DAC for digital. It's a gold plated Swiss army knife of an amp in my opinion.

Ayre AX7e / QX5-20. I'm done! 

The Lyngdorf 2170 corrects for intersample overs that are common with almost all pop/rock digital music. Very few DACs address this ubiquitous problem.

@d2girls

here is an explanation

https://benchmarkmedia.com/blogs/application_notes/intersample-overs-in-cd-recordings

“Every D/A chip and SRC chip that we have tested here at Benchmark has an intersample clipping problem! To the best of our knowledge, no chip manufacturer has adequately addressed this problem. For this reason, virtually every audio device on the market has an intersample overload problem. This problem is most noticeable when playing 44.1 kHz sample rates.”

No wonder upsampling of files sounds better to most people. It isn’t anything to do with higher resolution just less clipping!