You can't beat the taste of a Shashimi thin-film resistor that mates the DAC to the RCA jack!

Sashimi resistors - made in China but taste like Japan.

Seriously though, anytime a resistor costs 22 times what a run-of-the-mill one does, it ought to be good!

House of the Rising Sone
Out in the mid or far field
Dedicated mid-woofers are over-rated