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What DAC upgrade made you say “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”?

As the title suggests, what was your overall system and DAC at the point where you bought only a new DAC and said “DAMN, that sounds SO MUCH better than my last DAC”?

I’m a novice and so many people talk about improvements from new equipment as if they were only listening to varying degrees of static until they bought more and more new equipment which added up to them finally being presented with music. It’s like Salome and the seven veils. But when does the last veil get peeled away? 

So what system did you have and what DAC did you swap in that made you say “DAMN!!!!”?

I guess I’m looking for night and day differences, not gradual progressions……


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chopandchange
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I think you have to be aware that some DACs could give you that WOW upgrade based on the fact they may have better re-clockers compensating for a budget-ish transport (assuming that is the case in some circumstances).

If you already have a fantastic transport the differences in some DACs is less to do with re-clocking and more focused on the DAC engineering itself.
An example perhaps would be the Audio Note DACs - Audio Notes shun complexity expecting your Transport to be up to scratch - an AN DAC improves significantly with the right transport on the shelf. But if you put an AN DAC on the end of a lesser transport - you are not getting the best out of it.
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