I have a question for you guys. I get that the big selling point of this DAC is the difficult to acquire R2R DAC chip but is there a house sound to Audio GD DAC implementations that helps tame the D-S Sabre DACs? For example, if I went for the the NFB-7(2015) balanced DAC instead of the DAC-19 would there be a noticble and negative difference?
With that said how would the DAC-19 handle a 24/192 input over coaxial from a DAP if it's maximum is 24/96?
Everything is subjective. The dac19 sounds better in general and more than likely you would have more people agreeing to the euphonic sound of the r2r vs the shrill and crisp sound of the sabre. There isn't really a bad audio-gd choice. So I don't see any negative. If you can afford the dac19, then get it! You will be happy you did!
Can you configure your DAP to output 24/96? Or does it simply only output 24/192?