Is it possible to find a good DAC for under $50, 000?

Wow! Impressive presentation & command of speaking w/ lithe or no “ timing errors”…. Seriously, obviously a very intelligent man & very well spoken! 
 

I do wonder how the differences & details he outlined might be different using  a high sensitivity speaker w/ tube electronics which often have quite different harmonic distortion qualities & often more sir & space around & between instruments & voices? 
 

Lastly, if he can hear all of that w/ the equipment on Salamander racks w/ plastic casters, why does anyone need a really high end rack w/ fancy spikes or isolation devices? 

I believe this was supposed to air on April 1st, because it most certainly is a freaking joke.

Change the title to "Under $100.00", and you actually have something.

$50k  for under $10 k  a number of very good sounding dacs 

$50k I have heard ,excellent  but should be expected , starting from the router, LPS power supplies good cables, and quality Ethernet hub , you can get to over 90+% for dood dac imp,DCS has a $120 k 3 box setup including shipping !!

something things are nuts,$15 k for a 1.5 m loudspeaker cables 

I guess if you have money to 🔥 burn  why not l

Sometimes the gear has to be this price otherwise the wise folks with money won't buy it. A great example is the PlayBack Designs Dream DAC (at $24k) vs the Nagra DAC. The PBD Dream was built by a guy who knows digital technology since he was there at the start. The Nagra is outsourcing the the PDB boards.

Try and guess if PBD is OEM-ing the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd best boards to Nagra. Then guess which DAC costs more.

Lots of people (including audiophiles) would likely think that I was a fool to pay ~$6k for a DAC. But I'm very happy with my Aqua La Scala, and do not believe that paying multiples more could possibly provide other than wildly diminished returns.

In fact, it would be far easier for me to believe that there are DACs that cost half, or a third of the La Scala, that also sound really good, than that $15k or $25K DACs sound significantly (if at all) better.