Looking for a DAC under 2k

Bought a Topping D10 for less than 100,- usd best dac i ever bought. But if i compare my investment to a measuring mic for making room correction measurments with Mathaudio room eq towards the topping the measurung mic changed my sound for the better hands down 70% An the topping made it around 5% better (compared to my replaced Philips reference Cd player with 1541A dac). Don’t know how your current room acoustics is but i want to suggest give room correction a try an buy a measuring mic incombination with foobar2000 Mathaudio room eq is freeware .
https://hometheaterhifi.com/reviews/dac/topping-d10-usb-dac-and-usb-spdif-converter-review/

I've had the RME ADI-2 for about 3 years. Excellent w/lots of features. Built in Germany.

I would have said the Myth Brooklyn, but apparently Myth is undergoing a major change.  Benchmark

@traudio I also use an opticalRendu and recently had the same question. Hear to echo comments about how terrific the Denafrips Pontus II is. 
I've owned many dacs made all over the world from PS Audio -US, Metronome - France, Meridian - UK and others. The construction quality, fit/finish and most importantly, sound quality from the Denafrips are hard to rival. While I own American speakers, amp & preamp, along with a Swiss phono stage, my Denafrips doesn't in any way seem out of place or make you think Chinese = cheap. 
The Chord Qutest was the alternative that got the most consideration from me. After researching, although both are beloved by many, my take was that the Denafrips provided more of the design elements found in SOTA DACs( e.g. balanced, dual mono ladders & power supply). You can see that you're getting lots of value for your investment. That coupled with positive experiences listening to Denafrips, and voila. Cheers,
Spencer 

I'll consider looking at a Denafrips, but at the moment I leaning strongly towards re buying a PS Audio that I sold a few months back.
FYI, the company I work for has all of our products made in China, and I work with them daily, They CAN and DO make good products, (and they work really cheap) but it takes having people that work for us in place over there to inspect, lots of communications and supervision. 
They don't run production the way we do in the US. We have in process checks and inspections at most every step.They tend to run a product start to finish and check the results at the very end of the process. 
Therefore it's possible get a whole container load of product that can have many bad items in it, and you usually don't discover the issue until it lands in the hands of the consumer. I think my issue (and some friends) with iFi confirms this. Just my experience.