


Bright sound is generally associated with a tipped-up top end (i.e., exaggerated treble). Neutral sound means that neither the top end nor the bottom end of the frequency response, or spectrum is getting exaggerated or emphasized. The term "detail" is referring to being able to discern subtleties in musical recordings that would otherwise go undetected, e.g., when you upgrade to a better system, suddenly you are able to hear that there's not one, but two guitars softly playing in the background. That's all.I don't know about you, but the reason why I bought my DAC anyway in the first place was to be able to listen to sound with a feeling aka music. I have my opinion for that, which is that sound is just a sound and you have yours, which as I later saw, is that sound is a sound with a feeling.

The whole issue started with your statement about "clear and neutral" sound. I still often use a small portable battery Minidisc player on travels - easier than phones and still has a headphone output -increasingly modern mobile phones only have blu tooth connections - not the best quality for music although of course convenient for wireless hdmi I have to use an XP VM these days to copy / create new Minidisc recordings but the system works brilliantly. You still can't beat the old professional quality Minidisc recorders (the old Pro ones didn't have the DRM restrictions) - Sony could have wiped the floor with the minidisc format but because of the stupid DRM and ATRAC proprietary system it never took off like CD's - but a small 1 GB minidisc could contain in better quality more music than around 8 - 10 CD's at full quality !!! There's no way anybody who has the slightest inkling of Audio quality would even think of spending that amount of money especially their own hard earned dosh on those things - even the brand new amazing Samsung phones (Ultra 21 5G and the new folding models) don't cost that much !!!.

People paying over 1,000 EUR for cables must be totally bonkers or on benefits.
