Pontus Dac beats some stiff competition

I did mention to Oli I would be happy hosting a dac evaluation day for this purpose.

Can set up a representative forum system that can take a dac, SPL meter (level matching very important) and could run the demo as a 'covered event' as this is purely a fact finding exercise I have no vested interest in pushing dac 'x' over 'y'

Can also have a real time spectrum analyzer available to measure each dac's response (whether you actually hear differences in relation to the various plots)

Also happy to demonstrate each dac's ability to generate RF down the analogue outputs way above 20Khz.

Can also do this is a way were a blind test is applied if you wish

Regarding expensive V's cheap dac I can find a Dave somewhere I think  thought that will be a two way test the more costly dac in the representative system then the inexpensive dac in a systems more representative of its cost.

For the myself the main differences between the more expensive dac's and say good dac's under £3K are the following observations:

Much thinner sounds, far less texture, decay sound staging,  low level detail retrieval, bass extension, texture and articulation and solidity. Plus the big one fluidity and naturalness.

Does make the less costlier dac's bad in any way at all, though do remember  system balance placing a really good component into a system which overwhelms the rest of the system it is placed in will totally upset the balance of virtues of that system what ever the system is vinyl/CD or streaming.