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https://www.enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/0723/LampizatOr_Horizon_DAC_Review.htm

One of the first attributes that stood out for me was how extremely well this DAC portrays dynamic contrasts and their prodigious modulations. One of my near-consistent disappointments with the performance of many other well-thought-of DACs is how they tend to compress or foreshorten the gamut and fluency of rather large dynamic contrasts in music, ranging from the blaring cacophony at the opening of Prokofiev’s “Scythian Suite,” to things as viscerally startling as the opening of Pink Floyd’s “In the Flesh?” from The Wall, or the bomb detonation near the conclusion of “Late Home Tonight, Pt. 1,” from Roger Waters magnum opus Amused to Death. While I will acknowledge that that are many lesser systems that are otherwise unable to recreate some of these dynamic contrasts faithfully, in a system like mine, or any that would befit the installation of the world-class Horizon, it allows that extraordinary level of transmission and expansive energy to flow with an unmatched might, ease, and authority.

https://www.enjoythemusic.com/superioraudio/equipment/0723/LampizatOr_Horizon_DAC_Review.htm

One of the more discernable failures of other competing DACs is their inability to faithfully recreate the space, and the subtleties of the physical placements and interrelationships, of the instruments spanning the soundstage. So many of even the most well-regarded offerings deliver a decidedly more dimensionally flattened instrumental image and limit the depth and breadth of their layering, presenting something that resembles more of a cardboard cutout propped up in front of you rather than offering the sense of the more real spherical wave launch and presence you so lucidly experience when hearing live instruments played in a real space. This near-consistent weakness of many DACs has been one of the most crucial factors fueling my ongoing resistance to digital music playback over the years.

https://www.hifichoice.com/content/topping-audio-dx7-pro

I’m really impressed with the DX7 Pro, both as a DAC and headphone amplifier. It certainly scores on sonics and is up there with other high-quality DACs currently available. It has loads of facilities and can accept inputs from a wide range of sources, including Bluetooth, USB, coaxial and optical. With its fully balanced circuitry, it will also be great for professional users while the ability to support balanced dynamic headphones is a real plu

https://www.hifinews.com/content/spl-diamond-usb-dac

It might be the most basic digital device in SPL’s ‘Professional Fidelity’ range of consumer products, but the Diamond DAC is both superb-sounding and something of a high-end bargain. By focusing on essential flexibility only – no fiddly filters! – the company has come up with a design that’s both easy to use and capable of excellent performance across a wide sweep of musical genres.