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Best DAC for Sonos

I was thinking of purchasing either a: PS Audio Link iii, Benchmark DAC1, Cambridge DACMagic or Musical Fedility V-DAC. Does anyone have thoughts on what might be the best to go between my Sonos and Krell preamp? Are there others that might be better?

Thanks in advance.
slinker001
slinker001 OP
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Erik, Rockit and Audioengr thanks
kbarkamian
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If you've got $1k to spend, you should really make it a point to hear the Rega DAC. I like it far better than what's been mentioned. I've owned one since January and am done looking for upgrades for a very long time.

It does a great job with jitter. I run my Apple TV gen 1, cable box, and XBox as transports, and everything sounds great. The ATV/DAC combo sounds far better than my Rega Apollo (as a standalone CDP) ever did. Not even close. I didn't get the chance to connect my Apollo as a transport though.
slinker001 OP
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Kbarkamian Thanks
jeffkad
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I have 3 sonos zp80s. running 2 through Apogee MiniDacs, and 1 through a BelCanto Dac2. All sound great, and I picked the Apogee over the Benchmark head to head. Great Dac. It's typically used and well liked by audio engineers. Costs less than 1k.
slinker001 OP
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Thanks Jeffkad
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