Why are DAC's so much more expensive than transports?


DAC's looks less expensive to make, yet Stereophile "A" DAC's commonly run over 10K while top rated transports are around 3K.

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To understand DACS you need to.understand the basic modules that comprise a DAC, what they do, and what, if any, impact they have on sound quality. That includes power supplies for both digital and analog circuits, digital input stages including Wifi/Ethernet, the DAC proper, the reconstruction filters, and analog line stages. Thats far too much to go into here, so suffice to say any bit-level digital errors are extremely rare. The real 'opportunities' for SQ impacts lie in the reconstruction filter and analog output stages.

To understand DACS you need to.understand the basic modules that comprise a DAC, what they do, and what, if any, impact they have on sound quality. That includes power supplies for both digital and analog circuits, digital input stages including Wifi/Ethernet, the DAC proper, the reconstruction filters, and analog line stages. That's far too much to go into here, so suffice to say any bit-level digital errors are extremely rare, The real ’opportunities’ for SQ impacts lie in the reconstruction filter and analog output stages.