Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD

Bricasti delta sigma beat the pants off the total dac’s discrete d/a converter chips.

I don't think so, as we did just that for a day at Kramer's, a reviewer for 6 Moons, HIFI Australia, and Audio Esoteric as well as owning Soundstage Australia.
His system comprised of the newest Wilson Alexia MkII and the Gryphone Antillion Evo, and I can tell you the Bricasti (latest version) wasn't in the race when compared to the Total Dac with Redbook PCM, so much so Kramer bought a Total Dac.

Cheers George 

But I have heard good non R2R beat meh R2R dacs. It’s how you use it

That's why I stipulated, " you need to go to properly implemented R2R Multibit based dacs"

Cheers George

You can think of the Delta-Sigma as an engine that creates the R2R function repetitively

Delta Sigma creates a "facsimile" of Redbook PCM it can never be as bit perfect as properly implemented R2R Multibit.
And isn’t that what this thread is all about??? "Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD"

Cheers George

All this “facsimile” and “guessing” is just marketing BS at best and misleading nonsense at worst. There is no guessing. Redbook defines the signal up to 22KHz perfectly and there is no guess when you oversample. In fact the oversample file contains only as much information and all the information as in the original file and no more as it adds nothing to the signal. It also contains the entire data in the Redbook file - nothing has been thrown out at all (as would happen in a facsimile).

The bits are being converted to analog. It is the accuracy of this entire conversion that is important and NOT the specific steps in the methodology. Manufacturers want you to believe that their specific methodology is better by appealing to the old school notion that doing things in a simple archaic fashion without technology is best. If this logic were correct we would still be using an abacus or slide rule.

Shadorne,
I agree with the marketing vocabulary comment as this is coming from proponents of the R2R approach. To be fair this bias marketing hype can be applied to either side on some occasions. 

George regarding Bricasti versus Total DAC I accept you heard what you heard in that system under those particular circumstances. I can state that I heard a direct comparison between the two Dacs in JWM's system and both components were well broken in. Absolare Signature preamplifier,  Krell 600 watt mono blocks  and Rockport Altair speakers. 

In the listening comparison the Bricasti SE  was the better sounding presentation in my opinion. Both were using ethernet connectivity.  My opinion is no more or less valid than yours. We are both just reflecting on our own experiences with 2 highly regarded DACs. 
Charles