Well ,they only sound as good as your hearing. Which we all know diminishes with age ,like it or not.

Seems excessive to me but if someone enjoys it, good for them! The more affordable Lampi DACs are really good, almost purchased one several times over the years and might still do so at some point.

A state of the art DAC usually targeted at top of the line systems.  Considering it sonically competes with the very best 100k+ DACs (MSB, Aries Caret, Wadax, dsc…), it’s a relatively good buy.

Still, the Horizon is out on my budget. The subsequent Poseidon at 25k seems a sonic bargain, so it along with PD Dream DAC were my end-game options.  I ended up with the Linn DSM/2 with the Organik DAC upgrade- a sonic bargain.