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When Will the DAC Singularity Be Reached?

A humorous title, but wondering if those more in the know have an opinion on either: i) examples today where inexpensive DACs (say under $2500) are comparable or superior to expensive (say over $10K) DACs or ii) can we anticipate that within a relatively few number of years that inexpensive DACs will basically achieve the sound quality of today's expensive DACs? Thanks. 

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deep_333
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There are Denafrips and other R2R dacs (5k and below) that seem to sound superior to relatively older 20k+ Dacs i’ve heard.

Having said that, the ASR descendants of imbeciles who claim that any dac is only as good as the realtek dac in their PCs should be duct taped and kicked out back to their boomboxes that sit on pizza boxes (speaker stands).

deep_333
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I recently listened to a $69k DAC is a Boulder system and everything sounded glorious! But did the DAC sound $67k better than my Pontus ll?

 

Well... put your Pontus in that Boulder system, listen to each dac for a week and let us know!

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