I am going to be a bit of an outlier here and feather ruffler. I had a friend one time who was a bit on the wealthy side. He had a very good education and a very good business. He traveled extensively. He took a trip to Europe with his wife and she wanted to go to France to have some fine wine and possibly visit the Louvre Museum. So when he got back and we talked about his trip, he said he had a good time but he couldn’t agree with his wife on the excitement and great experience his wife had with the great wine and museum artwork. He told me he does not understand all the fuss about the wine and really could not get the “Mona Lisa”. He told me the painting was not impressive. In that instance I knew how undereducated and shortsighted he was with regard to art and culture. He couldn’t grasp the time, effort, talent it takes to make great wine and didn’t know much Leonardo da Vinci and his overwhelming engineering, creative and artistic talent. So what does this have to do with a DAC? Well I guess it means the companies, engineers and talent that goes into the making of a great sounding DAC would often get overlooked.
