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A good DAC: AN kondo, dCS or EMM labs ?

I´m, interested on a new DAC, because I want to buy one memory player, and my question is which DAC do you think can sound better with it? Others DAC can be Weiss, Lavry, Berkeley alpha DAC, Dodson, MBL, Metronome..or others, but I don´t have a lot of information about them.
About dCS I think on Scarlatti.
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kops
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Emigene have you heard the Scarlatti vs the Puccini or Paganini?
dcstep
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Ok, now you're blowing my mind. I went to the Memory Player site and see that it has a 32-bit, tube DAC. The claim to fame of the MP, besides the 32-bit DAC, is that it reads the source disc into a large memory and re-reads as part of the error correction (error prevention) mode, hoping to achieve "bit-perfect" disc reading. That's great, but why would anyone go to an external DAC, unless the MP DAC is inferior?

I like the concept of the MP (except for the tubes) but if you're going to put tubes in the chain, then why would you bypass them with an external DAC? Just wondering.

Dave
emigene
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kops: sorry, but I only heard the scarlatti in all Scarlatti digital front
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drubin
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Dave, I think the MP also comes in a DAC-less version.
dcstep
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Thanks Drubin, that now makes more sense to me.

Dave
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