DAC for multiple CD players?

Davef,

I really like the EAD. My dvd player is the Philips963A. I still like the Philips for SACD, but on redbook cd, what first sounded like detailed and extended treble, soon became irritating (regardless of what level of upsampling I chose). Adding the EAD put a lot of "flesh" on the music--sounds more robust and three dimensional without while still retaining good detail (movie dialogue, for example is clearer). I think I paid 450 for it. I would work with the rca from your pioneer and the optical from the MF. I don't know what your budget is, but if it's under 500, I think the EAD would be a good choice (as would the CAL Alpha mentioned above), but I'm sure there are other good choices as well. Plenty of info. in the archives.

Davef,
Try the Bel Canto Dac 2 it has both a optical and a Coaxial input with a push button switch to toggle between the two inputs. I just got mine and I love it.

I also have the Bel Canto DAC2 and like Koiman says with the push of a button you can switch between the two inputs. One caveat though, in your case you will have to use the toslink connection for your MF CDP since the Pioneer only has RCA's. I have found that the coax on the DAC2 sounds much better than the toslink. Therefore you may want to think about getting a changer with toslink so you can use the coax connection with your MF.