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which dac?

hello again. just injected a running springs haley into the system. my next step i think will be a dac, but which one. which is why i am here, to elicit some opinions or suggestions. heard some nice things about bel canto. my system so far is: bat ss amp, bat tube pre amp, focal profile 918 speakers, rega appollo cd player jps ic's and pc's, kimber kable speaker cable. any help would be greatly appreciated, thanx.
gilman61255
dwhitt
347 posts
 
bel canto YES i have owned their product for sometime now and love the dac especially...
jhold
116 posts
 
Hmm--you own an Apollo? That's a very fine CD player.

I've owned both the Apollo and a Bel Canto DAC2. The BC DAC is wonderful, but I can't say that it was superior to the Apollo -- just different. I haven't heard BC's new DAC3. One thing worth noting -- when I used the DAC2, it benefited greatly from a good interconnect between transport and DAC. I started with a 75-ohm Canare cable, which worked fine, but the sound improved when I used a Kimber Illuminati cable.

If you're basically happy with the Apollo, maybe you'd like to move up the Rega line to the Saturn?
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nglazer
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Dodson 218 if you can swing it (and find a used one), or 217 MkII, which also was great. These have stood the test of time in my system. They don't do anything wrong and a lot right.

Nglazer
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