What is the best DAC ever made?

The best??????????

I have had a few DAC's including Krell, Meridian, Theta, Timbre, Audio Research, Benchmark, and now a not so well known factory modded Audio Horizon 3.0. Without a doubt the Audio Horizon is the "best" I have had to date. It is a tube based DAC, the first for me. They offer a 30 day in home trial that I took them up on and needless to say it did not get returned. Well worth an audition.......Bob

FORSELL AIR REFERENCE is not bad at all a bit on the dark side but THE JADIS JS1 is in an another league organic,lush sounding and holographic (3D) with full details retrival and a lot of AIRRRRRRR!

I heard the much beloved continuum tt whit the grand exquisite speakers against kalista refrence transport and kondo kls dac kombo by kharma speaker company in the refrence systeem of kharma.I own my self the cec tlox transport and kls dac combo and was thinking about going analog too but when i heard the kalista/klsdac kombo against 100k tt i understood that i was not missing much!Ksl Dac is fenomenal that good.

Hi Ertugrul. I have an opportunity to purchase a pre-loved Kondo KSL DAC at a competitive price from a known and trusted source. My transport is the 47 Labs Flatfish with Kondo silver interconnects. My present DAC is the 47 Labs Progression. The digital system sounds very good indeed, but does match my analogue front end for depth and "weight" (Sound Engineering TT, DaVinci tonearm, Dynavector XV-1S cartridge, Dynavector PH 200 step up, Kondo M-77 full preamp). I suspect the Kondo KSL DAC is in another league from the Progress and would narrow the difference from my analogue front end. I can tell you like the Kondo DAC. Is it really that good? Thanks for your thoughts.

Buy the Kondo; you are right. I do think, however, that the gap will between vinyl and digital will never be bridged, narrowed perhaps.

I listen to digital nearly every weekday night, and everytime I play vinyl it is to my utter amazement at how much better it is. Better, but less convenient, especially if you love the new 45 rpm versions of old lps.