DAC’s

holmz no not yet, been a busy week. To many options haha

@shtr74sims there is no dishonour in moving slowing, nor being busy. 😎
Nor looking at many other options.

While I do not personally hear a great difference between DACS, the options/controls/interface can be pretty important and a deal maker/breaker.

@cakyol

In my opinion, you could get a Chord Qutest for about 2k, which is one of the best DACs around, and save about 5k.

Believe me, you will never hear the difference, especially not worth a price differential of 5k, even if you have better hearing than the creature in the movie "A Quiet Place".

the op of this thread has not listed his system nor setup, unless i missed it

for me, since early 2020, i had the mojo, 2qute, qutest, then the hugo tt2... i then added the m scaler to feed the tt2 (this stack remains one among a small handful of dac setups i currently use, as i am very pleased with its sound)

in my stepwise progression, the 2qute and qutest sounded very very similar, but otherwise, there is/was a clearly noticeable change (upgrade) in sound quality each step up the ladder, so to speak - imaging, tonality, timbre, bass solidity, richness (in an analog sense) all improved

so for me personally, i would not simply assume the op will not hear any difference -- we don’t know the quality of the rest of his system

that said, one can reasonably debate whether 5 grand at the margin is more wisely spent to buy a better dac than a qutest, compared to upgrading something else in his setup... we just don’t have the information to know, or have an opinion...

@holmz I agree with you. I have been taking my time. In no rush, I am trying to be smart and methodical in my decisions. I feel it’s been working so far. There are enough dac options to make your head spin these days. 

In my opinion, you could get a Chord Qutest for about 2k, which is one of the best DACs around, and save about 5k. Believe me, you will never hear the difference...

This is from a guy who at the start of the year? was in 7th heaven with his bluetooth driven main system. I think what he is trying to say is "he will never [be able to] hear the difference..."

@shtr74sims to add more to the plate… @gdnrbob just put in “Innuos Zen Mini for the office, and the Innuos Zenith for the living room ”.

My AVR/AVP allegedly has a good Roon player built into it, and I am haunching over the bench to get the cables working for it this weekend.

Some of these Streamer/DAC combos are probably better options for people like me.