Cantorgale you may have already made your mind up anyway I’ll toss my 2 cents in .
Sure sometimes it’s a good move to better your front end however with a budget of 20 grand for a dac I’m pretty sure with the fast moving advances in digital playback I would look elsewhere for lasting improvements in your system .
Myself I use a 1bit FPGA digital stack which keeps step with a manufacturers advances in sound quality ect via firmware updates making it future proof for “now”
However I like to think long term when dumping money for enjoyment in this hobby and recently purchased some lightly used Jeff Rolland amplifier’s and Rolland preamplifier .
I could of easily bought a $20,000 digital front end instead however for long term investment I believe better electronics was way to go for me ,.that’s my 2 cents worth .
Sure sometimes it’s a good move to better your front end however with a budget of 20 grand for a dac I’m pretty sure with the fast moving advances in digital playback I would look elsewhere for lasting improvements in your system .
Myself I use a 1bit FPGA digital stack which keeps step with a manufacturers advances in sound quality ect via firmware updates making it future proof for “now”
However I like to think long term when dumping money for enjoyment in this hobby and recently purchased some lightly used Jeff Rolland amplifier’s and Rolland preamplifier .
I could of easily bought a $20,000 digital front end instead however for long term investment I believe better electronics was way to go for me ,.that’s my 2 cents worth .