iPod docking station - Belkin vs Wadia vs Arcam

I hope you guys that know will add to the thread because I would love to add a good dock. It seems the market is just a bit too new. For everyday listening, I just patch the ipod out to aux in. I'm good for 6 hours or more depending on the play list. I don't expect the dock to replace a turntable or cd player. Music direct has a Wadia, dac and cable combo that looks interesting. After hundreds of hours of use, Costco can sell me a new ipod for less than the repair bill of anybodys Music server. Am I on the right track here?

If you're going to use the DAC in the ipod why even waste your time.

You could recommend 2 or 3 dac's that are appropriate for my use.

Price range and what CDP are you currently using?

Last years RMAF I heard a demo which compared an ipod on an apple docking station to a reasonably good CDP on a nice sounding system (don't remember the components, but a Pathos integrated was involved) and I was surprised at the quality of the docking station. The guys doing the demo said the quality is much worse when you take the ipod's headphones out. Using the docking station bypasses the ipod's volume control, which is a significant improvement.