I’ve also heard many DAC chips and tend to prefer ones I’m familiar with. Burr Brown, AKM, Wolfson, mainly. ESS makes great chips too. I’m enjoying an 80s BB R2R 16bit DAC, since ladder DACs seem to be all the rave, again. I do enjoy today’s DACs also. Big blow to audiophile DACs. The AKM...

Loxjie D30 has the most options for the money. Great sound, ES9064AS Current Output, Chip, headphone amp, three filters, full MQA decoder, nice OLED color display. I enjoy mine thoroughly.

These are The best set of headphones I have listen to in this size. I find myself feeling the bass and seemingly moving my entire body. I cannot listen to music unless it is in CD format or lossless quality. 192 to 320 bit MP3 sounds like crap. Especially when using a high-quality set of...