dan.gheorghe
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The only reason to buy an expensve DAC is for the variety of connection options it has. Otherwise any competently implemented DAC with a flat frequency response and and sufficiently high S/N ratio will sound identical.
Think you hear a difference and you're unwilling to chalk it up to the power of suggestion, then spend away!
Otherwise buy a properly-designed DAC and Amp with the connectivity you need (which is just about everything on the market of recent vintage), sufficient power to drive the rig you have, and with the form factor you desire, and don't spend any more than you have to, because these products are really just commodities.
Even my mom or wife can pick the sound differences between two DACs and they know nothing about audio or the gear that I use.
And folks in the hi-fi world continue to wonder why there seems to be a general difficulty in gathering new people into the hobby...
And yet I know lots of people that started to enjoy this hobby. Actually I know less people that enjoy or join another hobby of mine: swimming )