What is the best DAC ever made?

People were jealous of Corvair and Edsel owners at the onset.

But then again, Ford and GM never re-located to some third world country and hide out for months on end.

Dr. Livingston I presume?

A curious hypothesis-only those who live in "third world" countries can come up with the same dumb ideas that came out of our auto industry. I don't expect that you have ever heard the APL equipment.

I've compared Berkely with AA Tube DAC and Emmlabs DAC2.
AA DAC in compare with Berkeley is just bad.
DAC2 is very close to Berkely, but a bit "digital" in the midrange in compare.
Interesting to compare with DCS Scarlatti.
I think it is the only real competitior for Berkely.

Playback Designs, either as a stand-along DAC or as part of the MPS-5 disc player.

Dave

Murataltuev, curious when you did your comparison between the Berkely and AA Tube DAC what your system set-up consisted of along with what tubes you had in the AA Tube DAC.

I have not directly compared the Berkely as of yet but have put the AA up against many other DAC's costing substantially more and it never sounded "bad" Actually it sounded so good that I currently still use it.

If you could also describe what you did not like.