Question About DACs

Like you I had read about the huge improvement in dacs in recent years and wondered  if my 10 year old Exemplar/Denon player was out of date. I decided to buy a Topping D50 given the excellent measurements
 and reviews, together with an affordable price and assertions that it was as good as any dac costing around $1000. When it arrived and was hooked up I could hear little or no difference between the Topping and my older player. I then tried it against an Oppo universal DVD, SACD ,CD player . Again no real dissernable difference. So what can one conclude from that? Maybe the Exemplar and Oppo players are really good, the Topping is not as good as its cracked up to be or maybe you have to spend mega bucks on one of those stupidly named Daves, Hugos etc to hear a difference and that's not going to happen. I don't know anything about the Schiit dacs but I know if I'm tempted to try other dacs it will only be on a sale or return basis.

The Schiit multibits seem to measure badly.  Here's the $2,400 Yggdrasil against a $500 Topping.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-schiit-yggdrasil-v2-dac.3607/

@ketchup

Even Schiit states their $100 DAC is their best measuring one; it’s also no coincidence that that’s the first DAC they made after getting an Audio Precision analyzer to actually measure the stuff they are selling.

The fact that George says R2R Multibit is bit-perfect and D/S DACs aren’t is just nonsense.

Wow ... those are some really troubling measurements on the Yggy. Glad I didn’t pull the trigger on either the Gumby or the Bitfrost. I will continue my research. Thanks.

My Peachtree Nova 300 has an amazing built in DAC that puts my 10yr old outboard to shame. Sounds like tubes with punch