Will a new Dac improve the sound?

For 1100.00 you can't go wrong with Cambridge audio Cxnv2. The Wolfson dac chips sound very good and it works flawless as a streamer. I have one in my den running a Melody h6550 integrated.  The roon also works perfect. Streamer, dac,preamp,roon. Then when you're ready for another upgrade send it to Modwright for the tube Truth Mod. Puts it on a whole different level.

I’ve used the following upgrades in my low-budget system for the last several months:

1. Audiolab 6000cdt transport

2. Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 200 DAC

3. Wyred4sound Remedy reclocker (purchased late last year)

Total price: @$1500.

A big improvement to my digital source (lots of 44.1/16 CDs, no streaming). CDs are now 96/24 playback. Improved soundstage with everything much more focused. Almost no harshness a lot of the time; when it occasionally happens, my uneducated guess is that it might be the quality of the masters that were used. Totally happy with the results.

I put a simpel smsl dac behind mine Marantz sacd player.

It is much better.

+ 1 on the Audiolab CDT6000

Some well reviewed “newer” dacs blow $1k that have really broken through in terms of excellent tone, stage, and detail:

Denafrips Ares II

Topping D70s (I’m using this one and am astonished at how good it sounds)

SMSL VMV d1se

Thank you guys for all the input. I guess now i'm trying to decide between a Dac with tubes or not. Not sure if the tube would give me a little less harshness. Or a R2R would give me the same results.