I'm quite late to the Ares 2 hype, a mix of only recently having my mood turn back towards music and hi-fi along with YouTube deciding to bombard me with videos about it. Got to say my curiosity is piqued because it seems different to to my previous/current collection of DACs, which is Beresford (ages ago early one), Dacmagic, Lavry DA10 and currently in my main system the internal DAC in a CA CXN v2. Generally I've found that moving between DACs didn't make much difference, a slightly different top or bottom end, possibly more "separation" but sometimes so small I'm not sure my brain is making things up. What a lot of the reviews for the Ares 2 claim is a very different presentation to Sigma-Delta DACs but is it enough to give your systems a different feel?