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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I was using a Cambridge Audio DacMagic 200m (which I still like and use in my second system) before I got a PrimaLuna EVO 100 DAC. The sound was much warmer and brought some life into the usually (to my ears) clinical or ‘dry’ sound of digital. I love it. 
Couple years ago I went from a Musical Fidelity Tri-Vista 21 DAC to an Esoteric D7 DAC.   I was stunned by what I was missing.