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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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jwillox
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My DAC experience thus far is always with combinations of BluRay, Pre, and streamer. DAC implementations vary quite a bit.
As many did, I started streaming with a Bluesound Node, then streamed with it to a DAC in my preamp - a noticeable improvement. I then tried a Cambridge Audio 851N and Ir was really quite good. A wow step.
I t has poor use of streaming from my NAS, so that went away. Currently using a Cocktail Audio which integrates well, and is quite decent - on a par with the DAC in my preamp. Just using the analog outs.
I tossed around the Lumin idea, but the price range is outside my priority levels.
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