Actually I almost put that in my post. However, in my experience you might, maybe sometimes will get a person ready to spend $10K to at least consider a $2k or $1K device. If you start talking way lower than that you just lose credibility with them.
I really, really, really, like would really, like for Amir to get a top quality ADC, and offer us some music recorded at the outputs of the various DACs so we could listen to it without knowing from whence it came and see if we hear differences. A Chord Dave, RME ADI and Topping would be an excellent starting tri-fecta.
Bravo for your post stunta.