Upgrade Hint 6?


My Parasound Hint 6 sounds amazing but I suffer from the same obsession that many of you do.  How far up the Schiit DAC food chain would I need to go to get an appreciable improvement in sound?
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It's hard to say, really.  I'm assuming you'd connect the outboard dac into the Hint and hope for an improvement?  That would depend on if your speakers are capable of presenting additional detail and resolution.  Also, the Hint is said to be on the slightly warm side soundwise, so a slightly warm sounding Bifrost or Yggy might push things too far into the warm category to hear an improvement.

Then there's the cables.  The DAC in the Hint is pretty respectable, I'd say you're at a point where you'll get diminishing returns.  As long as your speakers are up to snuff, I'd say just call it a day and stop researching new purchases.  If you are bound and determined to get something else, you'll get more differences from getting a second pair of speakers that you can swap in when you get bored of your sound.  
OP, don’t be surprised to find disagreement among audio people.  Calling Schiit multibit DACs colored sound is not true.  And as one who’s owned three of them I think I know a thing or two about their sound.

Sorry, but I’ll also have to disagree with the $400 dac theory as well.  But one does need decent gear in order to hear improvements.  Good luck with your search.
Op amps are cheaper than discrete circuits for a reason...

Does a violin measure as well as the latest Benchmark model? I’ve had components that measured amazingly well, and they also sounded completely mediocre.

Two amps that I once owned measured really well and the cheap one gave sibilance and loose tubby bass while the other one, in the exactly same system with the same tracks, did not.