@dcaudio -
With your budget, you could try a Naim nDAC combined with a Teddy Pardo TeddyXPS power supply. Excellent sounding and very well built, both by companies with long excellent track records re service. The pair would be under $2500. The combination will see off any of the standalone DACs mentioned above.
If you really wanted to go nuts and add streaming, you could do a used Naim NDS with the same Pardo TXPS; though an NDS would be $3-3.5K on its own (the Pardo TXPS is $1099 new) and requires a separate power supply.
With your budget, you could try a Naim nDAC combined with a Teddy Pardo TeddyXPS power supply. Excellent sounding and very well built, both by companies with long excellent track records re service. The pair would be under $2500. The combination will see off any of the standalone DACs mentioned above.
If you really wanted to go nuts and add streaming, you could do a used Naim NDS with the same Pardo TXPS; though an NDS would be $3-3.5K on its own (the Pardo TXPS is $1099 new) and requires a separate power supply.