High resolution digital is dead. The best DAC's killed it.

my NAD D1050 still sounds awesome 

    Imho, musical original masters recorded directly to a hi-res digital format should be the norm.  It has the highest capacity for frequency response and detail accuracy, a lower noise floor and the ability to capture the actual transient response/dynamics of live instruments and voices.
     Hi-res digital files also don't deteriorate over time and unlimited exact copies can be easily made without any degradation to sound quality.

Tim

@erik_squires 

I had a very weird experience last weekend. My friend has a DIY dac. In it was a NOS TDA1543 Philips chip hooked on a  a Rasberry pi with i2s. It could only play 16/44. The power supply was a very cheap phone charger with an extra usb cable in the charger (2nd power supply). I looked at the psu and my thoughts were. "are we going to listen to music through this?"  

When the music started playing i fell off the couch in disbelieve. The music was so pure, tangible. It was audiophile heaven......  He paid €300,- for this setup. It sounded like a million bucks.  

I'm seriously thinking to sell my own dac after hearing his. 


My own stuff is no slouch either. and i buy new cd's constantly! 

@erik_squires 

thanks for the radio tip. I will check it out!

So what are the best r2r dacs tknget for a good price . I’m currently using a marantz sa14 s1 for sacd/cd playback that uses a burr brown dsd1792a chip . Is this r2r or sigma delta?