Bel Canto DAC3 vs ARC DAC 7 ? Anyone

Bryston BDA-1

hi , I have done side by side comparisons between both dacs and Iike the Dac three over the Dac 7 . its smoother and less grainy and in your face. if you own the dac three check out the Bel Canto VBS power supply upgrade, it takes a great dac and makes it even better. I have it and love it ! Good luck , Chris

I have had both in my system, and many others.

Bryston BDA-1 is the best I have tried, including; Berkeley Alpha Dac, Tube Audio Design Predac, Benchmark Dac1 usb, MHDT Labs Havana (this is very nice btw), PS Audio III, the Bel Canto and the ARC. I have tried some others not worth mentioning too, and I jumped on the Bryston once it was in my system. Best all around DAC I have used.

Macdadtexas

Would you mind saying 'why' or in what areas the Bryston excells over the DAC3? or how it surpasses the rest on that list?

I'm most surprised the Berkley unit found no favor in that group... which BTW has some definite desparities given just their pricing structure, let alone their feature sets differ as well.

I'm certain your thoughts here would be well received and most enlightening, were you to provide them to us and those others who might be speculating on DACs, now or later on.

THX