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RE: Are`DACs with the ESS Sabre the best DACs?

You will get many different answers which might start the usually war, but the honest answer IMO is clearly yes.

If you look at many of the good major and minor DAC manufactures out there the to chip of choice seems to be the ESS. There must be a reason...

People can spin things, and add lots of superfluous info, but the simple answer to you question again is yes.

People love to talk, but often say very little of substance. Of course you need a good output stage and a good power supply, this is a given. But you really do not need 144 xyz regulators to get good sound.

Will you get bad sound from a DAC if the associated circuitry is poor, of course. As with any equipment. But this is a moot point. Manufactures are not going out of their way to build bad products! There is always something better out there, and more costly. But there are a number of really good choices too.

I built the Buffalo which is very good, but at this point I would not recommend going that route. I own a Mini Max Plus which is a very good DAC. With a bit of upgrading IMO it is a killer. The W4S is also a great DAC! TAS gave it a super review. Lots of inmates own it and love it.

The Mytek 192 look like it might even be better from what people are starting to say. The I/O and feature set is really amazing, and it has been reported to sound really great. You did not mention price, but theses are all well under $2,000.

You then go up in price... Plenty of DACS out there! There is allot of really good stuff IMO and probably more coming out as we speak.

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