Musical Fidelity V90-DACPrice: $299.99

Website: www.musicalfidelity.com

Thom said: If you’re looking for a good, solid, reasonably priced, well-designed and -engineered, high-performance outboard digital-to-analog converter, I can’t think of a better buy.

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Read the SoundStage! Access review.

The gist: Couldn’t get this digital performance for three bills even five years ago.