Higher End DACs

DCS are just more musical than Esoterics in my system.  I am more into R2R DACs. 

Thanks, what else do you have in your system?

appreciate the thoughts

I recently wanted to purge my CD player and auditioned a Aurender ACS 10 with a Audio Research
DAC 9 both costing under 12K!
The sound was exceptional in all respects and the system could be controlled by an IPAD using a streaming app of your choice.
This is worth checking out!

I have a NAIM server on HRS isolation and damping with a Pardo LPSU into an Aesthetix Pandora Signature - very musical, organic. Nice to see a civil helpful thread :-)

don’t underestimate isolation for vibration, signal and power!

I feel what's being overlooked is the resolving power of your speakers.
An advanced DAC would cost a lot but you might not be able to discern 
everything it's doing without very accurate transducers. I don't know enough about streaming, but with the pace of improvements in technology, I would welcome modularity when it comes to digital playback so that upgrading could be done in the field. Also, I am one of these "oddballs" who goes to a demo and can't hear a significant difference between item-A and item-B (which costs twice as much).
Item-B may look a little "newer" and have a few extra inputs (I won't need) and a nicer display, but it's not so much the cost but the degree of real improvement, which is small.