Best Bang for the Buck DAC / Do it all DAC

[Crook]

For 'Do it all' you could consider the RME ADI-2 DAC fs

Does PEQ well
Clever volume control
Neat loudness feature
Competent headphone drive
Good back up
Comes with a hard copy manual !

This 100%. Mine replaced 4 boxes; pre x2/dac and HP amp. I can't honestly see why I would want to replace it. Bang for buck comes from all the future stuff I won't now buy.

 

[shuppatsu]

My $5 Jcally JM12 can do PEQ (flashed). I think it's hard to do much better until you're buying in quantity from Alibaba.