But for $149, you can easily buy a good DACI love how is shows improvement on the Modi 2, because that means it can be an improvement for bad DACs. Which means I can tell people for whom this does anything that "of course it works for you, it has been proven to improve performance of badly designed electronics". It's the ultimate Uno reverse card for the your-gear-isnt-good-enough-to-hear-it-crowd.