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What are the DACs that use good circuits in the Audio sections?

I will admit that I have never meet an integrated circuit that I thought was worth my time/money.  That said, is there a good DAC that is good in the conversion process but also has some real components in the audio section rather than "chips".    
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djones51
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No.
djones51
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I don't know of any DAC that doesn't have a chip or PCB in it. 
djones51
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As mentioned above PSAudio, Chord and some others use software for the digital conversion but I have no idea if there is a chip somewhere in the signal path. They might use a chip on the digital inputs. CD player or streamer will have chips, not sure you can do digital and avoid using a chip somewhere in the audio path. If you stream from the internet there are chips in the modem that covert the analog to digital. 
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