@melm did I say that?
No I did not. And there many European companies making top line DAC’s
So enjoy your day. BTW Denafrips just had a price increase.
Engineers do not build DACs in China slave labor does. Engineers in China reverse engineer Western products, enhance them to a degree and sell them in the West.
Also the DAC was invented by an American.
Tell me please, why do you think that a country that annually graduates about 10 times the number of engineers than we do in the US cannot develop a top of the line DAC?
See Holo, Musetec, Denafrips, . . . . . . . . more to come. Western producers of over-priced DACs, and we can all name them, look out!