MASTERING ENGINEERS ADVICE — converters

Hi, I'm Streaky. And today I'm reviewing the beautiful Lavry Gold Quintessence D to A DAC. So this is a DAC by Lavry. Now you may know Lavry Gold from the A to D converter. I put a link up here.  I reviewed that previously, love that. Amazing. Now they've sent me this over to review to listen to, I'm always up for listening to DAC and for listening to anything really, being a bit of a geek. But this is the Quintessence. I just love this, the color, the front. As you can see, it's shining and they just look amazing...

 I've had quite a bit of experience with audio interfaces over my time. Now, when you first start, it's going to be a price point situation, and it's trying to get your best bang-for-buck. Also, keep in mind that when you're starting off your ears aren't tuned, your hearing palate hasn't developed. So even having the best converters aren't going to do you much good, because you don't know what sounds good and what sounds bad. A lot of people don't have a huge budget when they start, so they kind of look around and look at what everyone else...