Best DACs of 2018

[amirm]

Why isn't RME adi 2 dac/ pro fs on this list?

They failed to provide him a DAC I am sure...

 

[yueyongyao]

The best DAC in 2018 :BENCHMARK DAC3 and
Crane Song Solaris.I want to know the Crane Song Solaris test data.

 

[yueyongyao]

Crane Song Solaris IS Too much praise.

 

[Human Bass]

There is a difference between you expressing an opinion, and someone creating a website, saying there is a shoot out, and then potentially mistreating one of the participants due to bias and improper testing:

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How is this fair and proper to Border Patrol if it was shown that in blind test, such impressions went right out the window??? People writing for the public have a responsibility for fair and correct reporting. Daming that companies product when neither is in play, is not good. Not for consumers, not for our society at large.

Does anyone believe that a DAC can make that final transformation on how conducted that music??? That statement alone indicates improper evaluation of music and people who lack critical hearing to even correct explain differences heard.

The funniest thing is how they treat the DACs as humans. "If that's hard for a human being to play, then it must be hard for the dac to process"

 

[iridium]

Turing Test - give the DACs a significant hurdle.

iridium.

 

[Kw6]

BTW which Dac won the contest?