Is there any high end DAC that can sound as good as turntable ($10,000 budget for each)

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Do you plan yo use Roon ?

What is your other items ?

 

You may like Dave (look here, he likes Dave a lot). 
 

I normally don’t promote my Theta Generation VIII much as it’s expensive and only supports AES/EBU and SPDIF. But maybe worth to test it against other DAC’s if you have that possibility. 
 

Old DAC’s may sound very good and may “beat” many of today’s DAC’s.

I like to give an advice that many probably will disagree in. Stay away from USB. Use optical Ethernet only. (Well then only Lumin left I guess 😀). 
 

From one of the links above:

“It has been stated that the reverberation time in a large venue like Carnegie Hall measures between 1.8 to 2 seconds.  At the Alice Tully Hall in the Lincoln Center just a mile away, this more intimate arena has a shorter reverberation time of 1.4-1.5 seconds.  Which is preferable depends on whether I am listening to a solo guitar, four string quartet or a full orchestra but regardless, I very much enjoy hearing the acoustics of a great building and never would I prefer to hear music in an anechoic chamber.  This is where most DACs stumble and where I find the DAVE excels.  This is also where I find PCM superior to DSD.  DSD provides you an expansive and a soft "tube-like" sound but this softness, which can be a wonderful way of masking the harshness of many chip DACs also results in a diffuse and imprecise presentation with respect to depth and timing and my careful A/B of my own recordings has convinced me of this.  As someone who values the accurate spatial portrayal of a live musical performance, I have found that a good music server can providemuch but a good DAC can provide more”.

 

[R1200CL]

The OP was asking:

 

“My question is if there is any higher end DAC and streamer combo  that can beat turntable and phono preamp combo (let's say the budget for each combo is $10,000)?  Or there is always something that is limited only to analog sources like turntables, reel to reel and this makes no DAC can replace them? “
 

I think he would like suggestions for what equipment worth looking at.