Thinking about getting a R2R DAC

It sounds wonderful to you and that is all that matters and yes you very well may enjoy those artifacts though depending on age may not hear the bulk of them. It gives a light and airy sound to redbook. Some love it.  Embrace it but don't confuse it with accurate.

Accurate: meaning an engineering measured number...

accurate: meaning a natural timbre, a feeling of the real instrument for the human ears...

Accurate?

Or these 2 meaning of accurate we conflate them and accurate means first and last a number on a measuring tool...

My nos dac cost me 25 dollars new on a bid and the idea to upgrade it seems ridiculous to me ....

After 2 years i cannot fathom his limit they were not audible to me....This dac improve with my speakers and amplifier embedding controls installation...

I dont doubt that there is better dac than mine, i will call them not more accurate but more musical if they are better, for example the Denafrips pontus in NOS mode is certainly better than my actual dac at his price........ Accuracy without musicality is without interest for me....



« I have 2 masters et they serve me well: my ears» -Groucho Marx


« They are not masters nor servants brother, they are your friends»-Harpo Marx

I can assure you I'm not confused.

I am sure you are not..... accurate in the technical sense is a good thing.....

accurate for my ears is also a good thing....

It is not a matter of confusion, it is a matter of assimilation between the 2 significations....

Nos dac does not mean inaccurate, unless we reduce accurate for my ears to accurate by numbers....
 
And sometimes techical improvement are not the "crux of the matter"  for audiophile experience, especially at moderate cost....Saying otherwise and reducing  the 2 sigification of "accurate" is  misleading....

My best to you....

all that matters is sh^t we buy sounds good to us

the rest is BS

accuracy in hifi is an oxymoron... we are talking about reproduction of music via a recorded medium