Imo your sourse if the most important since everything starts and starts there.
for example buy the Excellent Denafrips Terminator plus it is superb on. Most any level ,just give it a very good power cord and clean power ,your system will sound as real and natural by far then the vast majority out there and a bargain at that .
i have heard this dac against dacs at 2-3x the price for $6350 ,
the closest to this ,the HoloSprings May KTE dac which is not far behind .