Yeah, forgot about that.
DSD sounds great in my opinion, I would suggest Vanessa Fernandez for trying it out. Biggest difference I get in quality is going from youtube to dedicated player (musicbee) that plays good flacs. I love music videos, lives on youtube, but the sound is terrible. I wish there was an (paid?) youtube serivce that could get you better audioquality.
(and sorry, first replied to wrong person D )
Just a heads up. SMSL D1 is up on massdrop for a pretty good price. $850
are you sure its a good price? 
lol. well… it’s apparently a good DAC. Zeos uses it with his 789 on his non-work desk. Hard to find under $1000.
It’s a pretty good dac but imo at that price the rme adi2 makes more sense in my mind. The d1 is a hair lengths better sounding, but with the adi2 dac you get a lot of features
what do you do to the A100 to mod it for use with headphones?
The emotiva basx a100? There are jumpers you can put in to give you the full speaker output into the headphone jack
that’s right…thanks for the reminder.
how neutral is the A100 headphone output?
It’s a bit warm and not as clean as the atom, but giving something like the t50’s more power seems to help it more. For most headphones you would be better off with a jds labs atom, and also you could run into noise floor, so I would only say the a100 is worthwhile if you want a speaker amp with a good headphone out or have a headphone that really craves power
Just got my Denafrips Ares 2 and loving it. I paid 877 after tax on Drop and it sounds better then my SMSL D1. But I wont be selling the D1 as it’s amazing dac for $850 off drop. My whole mindset was improved by getting R-2R dac. I eventually will get a higher end R-2R later in life. Loving that colored sound.
R2R ftw lol, really don’t want to go back if it’s for my personal enjoyment. I don’t use an r2r in the studio of course
Any options on the AUDIO-GD R2R 11?
Pretty nice dac in there, but the headphone amp is powerful but not the cleanest and has some compression issues
Hmm. Still cannot decide, perhaps will postpone buying this year and get some cheap chinese IEMs on 11.11
Currently cannot decide between AUDIO-GD R2R 11, Schiit Multibit, Airist R2R. Problem with the Schiit is that is not 249 USD in europe, its more like 300+ euros, which makes it really close to other too.
I would rank the dacs in this order (higher quality first) Drop Airist, r2r 11 = Modi Multibit. I guess I would rate the audio gd higher since it also has a headphone amp too
I do think the modi multibit is the cleaner dac then the audio gd, but the 11 has a more tube like character
I would also check to see if you can get a Soekris DAC1321
Weirdly got a deal on Audio GD in estonia for 265 euros. Also found a Soekris 1321 in poland for under 200. 
Those are pretty good, I would say the 1321 is the better dac, but you do get a powerful headphone out with the audio gd
Got the Audio GD already and did not expect the HUGE difference in sound. With the Klipch RP600Ms there was always a slight sence that a little bit of low end is lacking and I even hooked up a sub for frequencies below 50hz.
After changing to Audio GD DAC it feels like there is too much low end and I had to use tone controls on my amp. Strange how different a DAC can be.
Is definetelly not as detailed as the SU8 for example, but feels wider, warmer and more natural. More musical. The SU8 is searching for details that are not important in music and is fatuiging, while the R2R dac feels more relaxed and better for longer listening. Guitars and vocals sound absolutely superb. But ofcourse I can only comment on rock/metal related things as I will refuse to play any mumble rap or pop from my nice system.
So I recently got to listen to the convert 2 for awhile and it’s pretty nice for sure. I think its a really good dac for what they ask. I don’t think it will replace what I have in the studio right now but man its got lots of features and sound really good. Probably better bang for the buck then what I have now lol