Are all R2R dacs slow and soft?

@danmar123 Aurender N200 is excellent. And it has a solid network improvement but…what the switch will give you is ability to implement a high quality Ethernet cable for your streamer. When I had the N200 I could hear differences between Ethernet cables. I used Purist Audio CAT7 Ethernet cable into N200. Then tried Audience Hidden Treasure and sold the Purist. 
I no longer have the N200 as I was able to eliminate it due to the high performance streaming card built into my DAC, but nonetheless try different cables on N200. 

@audphile1 

I've been doing my homework since the summer. I have so many USB, Interconnect & power cables on on my lists, that's driving me crazy. (lol)

I do like your suggestion of the Audience cables, but I'm a big fan of ''OCC'', Neotech are on my top of the list for cables do to the OCC.

Happy New Year everyone!

I am a huge fan of audience digital cables and I also love my Audience FrontRow speaker cables. Not a fan of their interconnects or power cables anymore. 
If you dismiss Audience Ethernet and Studio One USB cables you will be missing out big time. Don’t box yourself in. I’ve neotech interconnects and speaker cables. Good but not Audience FrontRow level by any stretch of imagination. 

@19mmark19 

+1    And since the Venus 15 is essentially the same as the Terminator 2 mentioned by dpac996, that makes three of us contesting the idea that it is slow/soft.  I've had two other R2R DACs which I would not describe as slow or soft.  But I suppose softness is relative; if one is used to a bright component, a neutral one may sound soft, even if it is more accurate.

@mclinnguy 
"It looks like they are toed-in quite a bit, crossing in front of the listening postion, but it might be the picture? You have experimented with toe- in I assume?"

LOL, if you've ever owned maggies, you know you find the "perfect" spot every few weeks.....so yes.