Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review.

Wow!!! well don’t buy one then, what’s your beef with the Danes, are you Swedish or Norwegian they don’t like them, suppose you don’t care for Gryphon amps either?

Like I said

Very affordable highly regarded discrete R2R dac from the Dutch

Find something else around $1k that competes sonically with discrete R2R ladder design, with all the features it has.

Soren Kristensen is held in very high regard as a digital designer.

This is essentially false advertising. You seem to take offence to anything related to snake oil, well this is a snake oil statement.  It is at best your personal opinion. If this was a delta-sigma, you would probably say he was no good. Try to keep your bias out.

 If this was a delta-sigma, you would probably say he was no good.

And there it is!

Well in my system, I have not had a delta sigma that has sounded good.

Just too bright and thin.

More noise, less music.

YMMV.

One item to consider if you are thibking about running a DAC direct to your amp.

Consider if the DAC has a remote control for the volume.

If that does not matter, consider how the volume is incremented on the DAC and how large the volume control is for yuor hand.

One annoyance is that Soekris DAC volume control knob is very small and it is easy go under/over shoot where you want to set it.

A larger volume control knob is easier to control.

Of course, not the end of the world.