DAC for my Esoteric X-O3 SE??

For what it's worth, I have an Esoteric X-03 SE into a Bricasti M1 with a HiDiamond Ref cable, RCA to BNC. I like it.

I own an Esoteric UX-1 and I found out that adding a Yamamoto YDA-01 or an Exemplar-Xindak DAC the sound improvement was -and still is- huge.

Daniel

Both Srajan Ebaen and Jean Hiraga at one time owned the Esoteric UX-1 and interesting preferred the Yamamoto DAC than the Esoteric`s internal DAC. Same as you Daniel.
I use The Yamamoto DAC and find it superb and utterly natural.
Regards,

I have an Esoteric UX-3 player and experimented with using my Wyred dac 1 as an external dac. I found that the dac in my Esoteric player gave me a slightly laid back and much more relaxed sound. Since I play mostly rock on this player, I find it to be the best of both worlds. I use my laptop as a music server through the Wyred dac and have found it to bring out the best sound of my mostly classical and jazz music.

Personally, I would keep what you have unless you have a lot of money to blow through. You already have a better player than most people have and you may make a very small improvement in sound, but will probably have to spend northward of 5K to achieve it. Just think of how many cd and sacd's that money could buy.

Bob

Bob..your advice makes the most sense...MORE MUSIC!! And thanks to everyone else who answered my question.