Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

Topping D70 is my best dac :)

All depends on budget. What are you trying to drive? Power amp inputs? What kind of control and metering do you need? Do you want DSD capability or will 96/24 suffice? What sort of digital input will you use, USB, coax, optical, AES?

Personally I like Lavry, the DA11 is very good second hand.

Mytek, Benchmark or Schiit all come up a lot in the hi-fi forums.

Since you don't seem to keep kit very long I would go for something from Schiit, you can sell it on pretty easily when you are tired of it.

I can recommend the Gustard stuff, especially USB-> AES conversion. In my experience this is a good stage to keep isolated from the dac.

If you want an impressive dac then people like Prism might be the place to look, obviously Chord have the poly+mojo to consider.