When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached?

Better DAC topology, better power supplies, better clocks, better components, better pre and post analog stages and better input types all have a huge impact on what we universally call a DAC. It could be true that all digital to analog converters sound similar (not the same) but that all the other factors mentioned above make up the huge differences in DACs

A digital to audio converter can be a tiny single chip but a DAC is a combination of far too many ancillary variables to be generalized.

And, yes, the price of the DAC - not so much the "converter" makes for better sub-sytems and better sound.

Objectivists always see the world in black and white terms. There are no grays, no preferences and no hierarchy of qualities. It tests good - on the tests we apply to the item - so it must be good.

If this thinking was verifiably true everything would be reduced to a single set of measurements and a requirement that everyone agree to this unnatural logic.