What's the greatest bargain in DAC's these days?


Hi, Gang,
I am currently running my Music Hall CD 25.2 CD player as a transport through my Musical Fidelity M1 DAC. I also have the Musical Fidelity V-Link 192 for playing hi-res files from the USB port on my laptop.
DAC's are such a fast-moving market segment that I started to wonder whether there was a "stupid good" DAC, even better than the MF M1 DAC, that could be had for well under $1000.
I started a thread in the Amps/Preamps forum called "What's The Greatest Bargain in SET These Days" that yielded tons of great info. I hope this thread does, as well!
rebbi

Showing 3 responses by b_limo

I had the Parasound Z Dac, the Musical Fidelity V Dac with pagea p100 power supply and the Musical Fidelity M1 dac all at the same time and did thourough a/b/c testing. I preferred them in the order I listed them. Interesting that the v dac with pangea p100 beat the M1 dac in my oppinion.

Musical fidelity offers the worst customer service I have ever experieced. Changed the whole way I buy audio gear now.

I've had my eye on the schitt bifrost uber lately... There may be better sounding dacs from china or japan but I wont take another over seas custom service gamble.

I like my cars German, my audio gear American and my Women European :)
MBL is my favorite also, but I too, can't afford it.

I could have added to that list german food and german beer :)

As for women, well I'd take Italian, French, Czeck, German, Spanish...

What were originally talking about?
lol, I was talking to someone about Schiit the other day. It's hard not to giggle when you are talking about their products, and there really isn't away around saying "Schiit" when referring to them.

I still think that the bifrost uber will be my next dac.

My last dac was the Parasound Z Dac. Great dac for $300 from music direct. The Z Dac has a very organic, natural musical sound in my opinion. It sounded more analog to me than the MF V Dac, MF M1, and Cambridge audio dacs.