The DAC Scam - Almost everyone believes the hype

I’ve owned multi-thousand dollar DACs but these days I use the $400 Topping E70 Velvet. 
 

IME, there is no point in using an expensive DAC unless, perhaps, your system is anchored by >$20K speakers. Speakers are the weak link in the vast majority of systems. More specifically, the drivers in said speakers are the weakest link. 

Really there is no point in using a >$300 DAC unless your speakers are equipped with something like Scanspeak Revelator or SB Satori drivers. Even then….🤔
 

Actually, as true or false as it my be, none of what the gentlemen in video stated really makes a hill of beans difference to the average audiophile. This hobby is more about what captures your imagination, illusions, stirs ones emotion and passion more than anything else, regardless of price, or, sometime, performance. The equipment is just as important as the music itself. That’s what being an audiophile is all about. I just love gazing at my lovely, expensive audio gear (jewelry) just as much as I do listening to it. This doesn’t make me any less of a music lover. It’s all in the game. Happy listening.

Some real honesty here. 

I went from a Topping D90 to Pontus 12.  There is a difference and it is worth the extra, IMO. 

Yes, for better or worse, Denafrips DACs sound very different from most Toppings.