DAC 'Scam' Vid

If you spent less than$1000 on your entire system, you cannot tell the difference between a $200 DAC and a better, more expensive DAC. 

@strawj 

"Mostly these kinds of threads tell me more about what wealthy hobbyists think about their money than what they think about equipment."

Interesting take on this thread.  Can you provide an example?

Here we go again, evaluating DAC's soley based on the DAC Chip that it uses.

The most important factor for buying a dac is buying one which price will be commensurate with the others gear pieces value...

If not, evaluating a few thousand  bucks dac in a low cost system as mine makes no sense...

There is good dac at all price level... Thanks to an improving technology...

And evaluating costlier dac in a living room or in a showroom means nothing...

Acoustics control must exist for any evaluation...

And  if the design of a dac and  not only his chip matter,  the way we install it in our own system matter as much...

Some people  don’t know what they are talking about. One dac chip just starts the building process many other parts equal the sum .

Power supplies  ,filtering ,buffers there are many many things that go into every brand dacs and all are different especially over $1k that is something I would expect on ASR review . They can enjoy their $700 topping dac.