8 Reasons why you should buy an $50,000 DAC

Sure.  Then put a sign in your front yard that you own a $50,000 DAC, preferably next to your Bentley.  

You work hard you play hard so do your research and enjoy the music.

When you want to improve your system, it is hard to decide what to invest in.  This is my experience.  I have a large room with high ceilings, and with the digital side of my system, I was hearing some harshness  in my system at high volume, which was causing fatigue.   As a modest income guy, that mostly buys used equipment that I could not afford new, I was not too motivated to change out my components...  I was primarily focusing on changing my DAC, thinking I had to go RTR.  In the end,  I decided to focus on where I had skimped before changing components.  First, I moved my speakers farther apart and changed the toe in.  Then, I upgraded all my interconnects, speaker cables, power cables, added footers, changed all my worn reissue preamp & amps "small" tubes to high quality vintage tubes, and added an audiophile grade rack.  Viola !  that fixed it.  What a huge difference !  Everyone noticed the difference, and I can now play at any volume without fatigue.  So, the lesson I learned is that an expensive DAC will probably improve your sound, but, may not fix what you are trying to fix if you have weaknesses elsewhere... 

PS.. although now, I would like to hear what a higher quality DAC will do for me. lol... 

The  real question is a $50k DAC justified in SQ. The answer is NO! There is practically no studio anywhere in the world that uses a $50k DAC. The people that made, mixed and mastered the music don't hear the frequencies, the depth, or the imaging that a DAC like that theoretically puts out. The extra bandwidth that a DAC like this may give you is not mixed or added into the recording at all it is literally noise.

That being said it is off the audiophile world to simply say, cool it sounds great, or my 80 inch sub is amazing you've got to listen to it is perfectly valid but it's just an entertainment and has nothing to do with fidelity. 

I could never afford an expensive DAC such as that but applaud people that can and have the hearing to tell a difference.  

I did buy a couple of cheap ones just for the heck of it to decide if I could even tell a difference. The 1st one yes, and actually like it. The 2nd no. 

Reminds me of years ago when I could actually afford my first really nice system. Bought all the stuff, put it together and thought WTH? My garage system that cost a fraction of it  sounded almost as good. Live and learn in this hobby.