Agreed. A DAC upgrade is tempting, but to get a meaningful upgrade will cost a lot of money, and I don’t have the kind of income that would allow me to easily justify spending thousands for just a relatively marginal improvement without eventually feeling remorseful over it. I have auditioned a bunch of high-end DACs up to the Chord DAVE + MScaler, and that certainly showed a reasonably substantial improvement over the Bifrost 2, but definitely not a game-changing improvement like the Euforia has been.
If you haven’t yet played around with tube rolling, that’s something I can sincerely recommend. I have recently posted some impressions here from my first step into tube rolling in case you’re willing to consider it.