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RE: Do you have any specific examples to bolster your generalizations?

You mean the distortion from the lack of filtering from mass market DACs that makes them sound harsh? Rob Watts correctly points out that many digital DACs sound rough. The DACs that look like stepped square waves vice a smooth analog signal?

Check out the review linked. There are other reviews with vey positive evaluations of the DirectStream DAC.

The major reason this DAC, along with Chord DACs, sound better than most DACs is the custom filtering, which the meter crowd totally miss. They simply can't figure how to adequately capture these characteristics.

Maybe some prefer the stepped sinewaves of the off the shelf DAC chips over the smooth outputs from the FPGA offerings? If they haven't auditioned the better FPGA DACs, how would they know any better? (They wouldn't).
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Edits: 06/10/24
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