DAC nuances

A good Dac is a good Dac regardless of age. Happily listening to a circa 1995 Audio Note Dac-3 Signature and it sounds fantastic. 

Blessed is the one who owns an Esoteric DAC or CD player. There’s no need to debate how good it is—it’s a device that will last a lifetime.

If you don’t care about rez above red book, find an old Scott Nixon Tube DAC. 

"Blessed is the one who owns an Esoteric DAC or CD player. There’s no need to debate how good it is—it’s a device that will last a lifetime."

Cheers Dirk, I do enjoy the Esoteric CD player/DAC combination. Scratching the old Audiophile itch of, "There must be someway to squeeze more sound" out this system can be both time consuming and costly (but fun too).

@jjss49 +1 "newer isn’t always better"

Typical pattern of product design flow:

1) attack key technical problem with new product design. declare “victory”, employ marketing forces to spread success. 

2) fire highly paid designers, since design already productized.

3) take successful product, and start to chop features, compromise performance to gain margins. gained money distribute among company administrators sales+marketing folks, no cake for you, doers!

4) spend more money to introduce newer, cheaper to manufacture product, to market, shows, magazines paid events/actions. increase price, if demand is increased.