Cin Dyment: we both know very well you never owned such DACs. You don’t own any audio system. Maybe in your rhetoric trolling the audiophiles you hate so much, lies.
Sorry for the threadjack but....
Wait, THIS guy is all over the audio Facebook groups saying he has some long history of commercial audio experience, former director at Sony Electronics, went to Harvard, Berkeley, Tufts, and Rensselear...and he just...MADE IT ALL UP???
Man, if so, that dude is a piece of WORK.
Also, I have three DAC's...and even though it's limited to redbook, the Sonic Frontiers SFL-2 mkii sounds pretty damn good with those Ultra Analog DAC chips.
It's "smoother" than my Gustard X-26 Pro and compares favorably (read musical) to my Spring 2 KTE (which I recently sold to upgrade to a Holo Audio May).