I pay for a nos dac 24 dollars....The sound is totally holographic and not veiled by digital glare.... Upgrading dont come to my mind you know why?
Because with a good source already the increasing in S.Q. comes more way more from the way you controls the 3 embeddings of the audio system....
I pity those who spend thousand and thousand of dollars for at best a microscope or a " digital sounding dac", mine sound like a tube amplifier with details.... The reason is the dac is good to begins with but the controls of the embeddings very good .... I know because it takes me 2 years of experiments each weeks to go there with the same speakers, dac, and amplifier....The difference is staggering...
No upgrade of dac 2 years ago at any price would have given me that...... And i will die with the dac i own now....If i win big money i will buy other speakers but first a tube Berning Zotl amplifier.... :)
Because with a good source already the increasing in S.Q. comes more way more from the way you controls the 3 embeddings of the audio system....
I pity those who spend thousand and thousand of dollars for at best a microscope or a " digital sounding dac", mine sound like a tube amplifier with details.... The reason is the dac is good to begins with but the controls of the embeddings very good .... I know because it takes me 2 years of experiments each weeks to go there with the same speakers, dac, and amplifier....The difference is staggering...
No upgrade of dac 2 years ago at any price would have given me that...... And i will die with the dac i own now....If i win big money i will buy other speakers but first a tube Berning Zotl amplifier.... :)