This is funny many will choose denafrips terminator because it’s really excellent DAC. When Trelja heard the whole line of Denafrips. He prefers the Ares, this probably 7 yrs ago. So I went to axpona and went to listen to terminator and Ares . Joe was right , the Ares sound bigger but many listeners loves the terminator.I bought the Ares demo.
Is there any such thing as a bad sounding DAC these days?
I think the problem of DAC for quality audio has been pretty much universally solved. Not to say all DACs are equal, they aren’t, but do any that really matter these days not sound “good”?