Rank the top reference DACs you've heard


Usually the battle goes between DCS Vivaldi set and MSB Select II.

However, since Swiss/Japanese (boutique level) DACs are usually out of reach, we rarely read about ultra high end DACs and where they fit with the rest of the league ($5000-$100,000) price range. 

There are other topologies and SOTA designs floating around, what comes to mind:
- new DCS (above Vivaldi) flagship to be announced
- Wadax Atlantis Reference
- Esoteric Grandioso D1X (Dual Mono)
- TotalDAC Twelve Mk2
- Lampizator Golden Gate 2
- Chord Dave+mscaler
- CH Precision C1+X1 (Dual Mono) 
- Soulution 760
- Aries Cerat Kassandra Ref
- Aqua La Scala mkII Optologic
- EMM Labs DV2/DA2

I mentioned flagship DACs only since the list will be bigger and we will lose focus of the subject. It is interesting to know some of us "lurkers" or who has reached audio nirvana with his choice of DAC and what did he it compare with. The more input we get, the clearer the big picture will be. 

Let's go!
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All those dacs are currently out of my price League, but believe the Molo Mola Tambaqi needs to be included. 
I would put the Playback Design Dream Series DAC on top of the list here, its by far the most fatigue free dac compared to allot of the Dacs on the list some i have never heard so cant comment. Andreas koch designs is pure mastery when it comes to Digital Playback.

I am not into Tube DAC or artificial induced Distortion.

My Vote would be:

Playback Design Dream Series DAC and Dream Transport, Its uses a proprietor Fiber Connection that no other system on the planet is using. Far More superior then BNC, AES, USB, HDMI. The way this system works is leap years ahead of others.


Second Vote: MSB 


Third Vote: Total DAC



Another vote for Playback... out of my reach for now, but found i could get closer through carefully upgrading my network and a Meitner MA3.
The Rossini is the current sweet spot of the dCS Streamer / DAC lineup when it comes to price/performance.  The Vivaldi may be slightly better but at a considerably higher price.