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

I saw that review and similar comments on the video.  The good thing is the price is only 47K so with a 50K budget you have 3K to upgrade the cables. I’m thinking of upgrading my $1300 Holo Audio Cyan 2 DAC to the Top line May DAC used which is $3K more.  Not going to do it so I can pay the mortgage instead.  I have got to get my priorities in order.  

 Thanks for the link.

That was a very informative and interesting presentation on DACs, signal processing and the resulting signal quality.

Very much enjoyed it.

As an avid DIY’er of gear, I have to listen for subtle details the value, or quality of a given part in the signal path. These subtle differences really do add up to an improvement in the presentation of the music, and the enjoyment of the music. Suspension of disbelief. Hollywood irks hard to keep you unaware of the chair you are sitting in or the fact you are looking at an artificial world. Different, as you are likely watching a movie for the first time, and will not watch it again for some time. As opposed to music where we might listen to the same song several times through the course of a week.

I don’t understand why people love to hate on expensive gear. Or why they insist there is no difference , even though they have never heard the gear in question. Is that ignorance? I don’t know.

TAS.  The magazine that told us when MQA was released that everyone’s DAC was now obsolete.  They clearly cater to the one percenters, and that’s fine, but they are so disparaging of excellent and comparatively affordable equipment that I just find them not credible 

  If you have the $ and the ears that can detect the most minute of difference, then enjoy.  From what I’ve heard of five figure DACs, the most performance is realized at the $5K range.  From $5K to $15K one can squeeze maybe a smidge more, and above that one probably needs a system in the $500K range to detect any improvement.

Kind of posted this as a joke. Most took it seriously. Interesting fact, in and of itself.

I'm pretty sure there are no noticeable differences above a fairly modest price point.

And, for any who claims they can hear a difference, I'd want to see proof that every other choke point in the system had been worked out – room, amps, everything.

But most do not go to that trouble before pronouncing on differences that they could not notice.

Without controlling variables of a certain magnitude, the differences people report are really them expressing their love for their own opinion.