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Importancy of DAC's analog section

Hi folks, many times I see in advertisements how proud the manufacturers are of their DAC's specific D/A conversion architectures, using the most advanced technologies, algorithms and chips (like the Miracle DAC chips). I think one thing is often overlooked and that is a DAC's analog section. How important is in your opinion a DAC's analog section? Could one make a musical sounding DAC consisting of a not very refined/advanced D/A conversion system but a SOTA analog section? Or just the other way around?

Chris
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One of the things that the modification people are replacing are the output OPamps chips in the analog section of the CD-player/DAC. These OPamps are often of inferior quality. It is better to replace those OPamps with good sounding ones or to use discrete OPamp modules. What is rationale of using the most advanced DAC chips and algorithms but to implement cheap bad sounding OPamps? To those "high tech digital audio" manufacturers: We (audiophiles) are interested in sound, not technology!

Chris
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