10-15 year old hi end DACs are still great.

With a few exceptions, I’d think really good sounding stereo hasn’t Earth shatteringly changed in the last couple of decades. Delivery Systems changed, the way we deal with bits changed, but a really good rig from 1999 still sounds like a really good stereo. A Jadis Defy 7, a dCS Elgar Plus...etc. I’d imagine it all still sounds pretty good. Why wouldn’t it?

I mean, a lot of preamps, for instance,  came and went along with a lot of technological marketing bluster but a Krell KRC HR (I don't even remember what year it came out) still sounds like one of the very best preamps I've ever heard.

@gents I tend to agree with you. Hi-fi has largely been a solved problem in the last 25 years. Implementation and personal taste are more important factors these days.

ARE you happy now ? Good now take your wife out for dinner....enjoy your find.

"ARE you happy now ? Good now take your wife out for dinner....enjoy your find."

Yes I am, but no wife so i took myself out lol 

My Arcam Alpha 5 plus CD Player still sounds current . It has the TDA 1541 DAC which sounds musical and takes pride of place in my second system.  .  I recently had it recapped hoping it would play for many years to come