Have you heard about the latest trend of no DAC at all? Not joking.
Talk about lowering the noise floor. How about the blackest background ever. And apparently, pretty much everyone agrees. Which is hard to believe, Lol.
I have a Lyngdorf tdai 2170 and love it to death. End game. It's sort of the middle child between the two current models. The new ones allow you to stream directly from your phone.
The thing that makes their approach so cool is that it's sort of like a wire with gain, from a practical standpoint.
I recommend you read some reviews.
@mbmi who are you referring to, specifically?