Upgrade from Oppo Sonica DAC

What are you trying to get? A DAC that is as transparent as possible for the price, or one that adds distortion/coloration? 

@ mzkmxcv something transparent and non fatiguing. 

@ranjithkp 
 
The Benchmark DAC3 and the Chord Qutest then. You would have to spend a ton to even get a worthwhile measuremeable performance, let alone audible (and not talking perceived audible), even the Chord DAVE shouldn’t sound noticeably better than these two. However, these are based on measurements, not what you hear with all the unconscious bias that comes with that.

I have over 2000 DSD albums . I am using Foobar2000 to DoP to feed my Oppo HA-1 and Oppo 205. Can also play DSDx2,x4 or even MQA. R2R DAC can't do DSD and MQA naturally.

Roon > Metrum Ambre > Metrum Onyx here using I2S connection. I think it sounds great. I wouldn't think of using Bluesound with Onyx- get the baby Ambre instead. 

Also R2R DAC aka Onyx can play MQA- just maybe not the "full" unfold, but as long as you get the first unfold (that is the most important) still sounds great. Once you get to the higher end DACS, the whole "full unfold" with MQA is a bit irrelevant as long as you get the first unfold.