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Haha, I wonder what people think of me with all this chat.
I've actually had the same turntable, pre, amp and speakers for ten years. Only started fiddling now, and even then the only thing that's actually changed is a pair of Tannoys. That and swapping an old Sonos Play:5 for a Chromecast as the digital source. All my hifi choices are very frugal and mainly DIY. Apart from the Tannoys, nothing cost more than £100.
The DAC request was a joke at Steves' expense. I'm very happy with the built in Chromecast DAC, mainly for the simplicity and the fact it cost £22 and is doing everything I want really well.
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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.