Upgrade from ART DIO?


Hi guys,

I'm currently running a Bolder Cables smART mensa modded DIO fed by a Denon DVD-3800. While I'm actually quite pleased with the sound that I have, I'm wondering what would be a good upgrade in either a new DAC, or perhaps a one box player. I'm looking for maybe a little more smoothness and warmth, but I don't want a "syrupy" sound. I want solid imaging, speed, and PRAT.

I'm willing to buy new or used, and probably don't want to spend more than $3K. The rest of my system includes:

Innersound Preamp
McCormack DNA-125
Dynaudio Special 25's
Various MIT, Monster and Stereovox cabling.

Any suggestions would be great.
tim916

Showing 1 response by psychicanimal

My upgrade was a belt drive transport, have Dan Wright mod it and getting a VenHaus Pulsar cable. How about that? What the transport doesn't extract no DAC will recover. Simple law of thermodynamics...