DAC with the best midrange ever.....


Please keep this topic straight to the question and try not to go off tangent. I am very specific with this need.
Most musical and melodic dac, I DONT LIKE the new benchmark dac even with all the rave out there that much but I liked the Musical Fidelity A324 dac.
The Audio Aero Capitol was nice but I prefered the SONY SCD1 even though its much older. I am a huge analog fan...
This should give you an idea as to what I am actually trying to find if you have had any of the mentioned units.
thanks
rapogee

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Well my system is high resolution for sure.
I wont get too much into details...Ayre K1e / Krell power / Wilsons and Apogees (2 systems) / Transparent cables along with Audience on the rest.

Digital Sources I have had:
Audio Aero Capitole mk2
Theta Transport / Dac Gen V
Meridian 500 / 563
Musical Fidelity Trivista
Audiomeca Transport / DAC
GENESIS Lens (still have this)
Micromega Transport / DAC1
Audiolab Transport / DAC
Krell CD300
Levinson 36 DAC
DCS Elgar / Verdi

I have moved to a music server now...... looking at DAC's such as WADIA / EMM Labs or maybe even to Meridian or levinson..I liked these ones in particular.
I am so sorry to say this to some but The Krell stays!!!! That's not the problem. Its the source I am looking for.I had all the tubes amps you can imagine and finally got out of them. Audio Research Reference Pre and Monos/ Sonic Frontiers / CJ's ( It does not come any sweeter that this and after years I realized thats not the problem. tubes have a special character but that's not the character I am looking for, I gave up more of my music having tubes and we wont discuss about there here)and found out my set up now can be as smooth or even warmer that tubes, patience / cable changes / tweeks and largest investment was time and measuring tapes that got me where I am now.
What I am trying to say is we wont go to other components in this thread and stay with the source issue since that where it lies in my chain. I am sure it varies from system to system.
Thank for the advise though.
Well thanks all of you.
What I am looking for is not here yet I trust since I am always comparing my digital to the Analog rig I have and thats just not going to fly at the moment.