.industry experts have an agenda, to relieve you of your money.
Some of us actually help people make their systems better. I have been doing this for 15 years. Also, some of us don't pay advertising, marketing departments, legal departments or distributors, so our products are much lower cost than the competition.
So, Steve, if your DAC only has a USB interface then you're SOL?
So, if you bother to look, you would see that the Overdrive SX has S/PDIF coax, I2S and (galvanically isolated USB or Ethernet) inputs.
My point here is to not focus only on the DAC as a panacea. The source is equally important. They are both important.
Steve N.
Empirical Audio