I'm not an amateur, I do this for a living with multiple platinum record sales behind me. I trust my ears, not magazine reviews. However there's really no point to this conversation, as I was just stated facts about the SABRE chipset used in professional environment vs the Cirrus. I agree that 99% won't hear the difference especially if they have cheaper commercial audio monitors which is not my case. Lastly, the point of this thread is not to replace or find an easy fix/shortcut to the guide
@kgp put together. If you decided to buy a DAC, it would be to upgrade your system, not because you could not manage to read the guide.