The best DAC for the money

You give a try to a Stellavox by Goldmund. It is a 24/96 DAC but it beats the sound of my EMC1(24/192). It sounds very opened and more detail but no harshness and super clean in background. Costs around $1500.00 to $2000.00 but it is worth for the money.

Why bother...the NAd has HDCD, 24 burr brown DAc, AND SOUNDS GREAT...

But not THAT great... ;)

Why not just upgrade the clock and opamp.
For $200, I did it to my Marantz CD67SE and it blew away
many stock CD players in $1000 TO $2000 retail price range.
Even better than the seperate DAC.

I don't really believe in mods if the original design is not up to your demands. It can be improved, but adding of new caps (what many mods do) but... I'd rather go mod something that is already very well designed. After clock and opamp there are too much other factors.