100% USA designed & made DAC

This thread is a good reminder that no matter how widely well-regarded a brand is there will always be those who have a dissenting opinion.

very true

an important part of surfing these discussion sites for useful info is knowing how to filter out the 'noise' from the 'signal'

+1 for Schiit multibit dacs.  Love the sound of multibit. 

Audio Mirror.....Great reviews. Mine is on the way. Can’t wait.....Hand built in the USA...v2.stereotimes.com/post/audio-mirror-tubadour-iii-se-nos-tube-dac-by-terry-london/

@rsf507 Sorry have to disagree regarding Schitt, it is just ok but compared to many others it is very flat and 2 dimensional sounding IMO. 

@barts  My experience as well.  "very flat" it never caused me to become "part of the music" just my 2 cents, but that's it.

I have been thru several DAC brands and finally settle down with Schiit Modius as the DAC for my second system.  I do not experience "very flat" SS.  In fact, Modius preserves spatial information quite well when the recordings have it, as mentioned in several thrustworthy reviewers.  The SS may not be as wide way passing speakers but, within the SS, it pinpoints the instrument / vocal well and has a reasonable depth.  The BF2 is a step up model and it just does not make sense for its SS being "very flat".  I know it is kinda subjective but why don't you educate the Audiogoners here what "many others" DACs in similar price points out there are better choices?

Orchard Audio PecanPi Link

Top notch performance and beat most of the brand names.

I probably should have stated that I am currently using a Lumin T2 streaming DAC and am interested  in an obviously better sounding option. Not something I have to strain to decide if I like it better, thanks for all the comments, Allen. 

bricasti made in ma 

MSB.Spectral.VAC.

Benchmark 3B

Also  a Meitner DAC MA-1

Both Great

While I'm an MSB and dCS fan, what about those cool little USB thingys from Audioquest?  California. 

Benchmark- DAC 3 . 
Great piece, really love mine.

Bel Canto 

When in doubt go Benchmark and rest assured you have a product with a focus on transparent engineering quality valued by professionals at your service. No nonsense. 

Geshelli Labs. Outstanding regardless of price. For $300 , it's astronomically underpriced based on performance. If they ever decide to do tube and point to point wiring, there will be free who can compete. Plus, customer service is serving to none.

Schitt, Schitt, Schitt!

Bifrost 2/64, Gungnir Multibit A2, Yggdrasil LIM!

Not chiming in on the dac of choice but rather the Made in USA portion. Yeah I am with you on the Made in the good ol U.S.of A. But I saw that someone mentioned that made in the usa means little as the value of components that are officially from the USA is like 25%. That is false. It is actually very hard to say that it is made in the USA as the value of parts has to be like 98%. They govt even inquires to where the material is from so if the metal is from China that is a strike against it. Here's a video of Schiit Head saying as such- (jump to the 7 minute mark):  

Benchmark, yes!

If you have the right equipment to go with it