Best DAC for Sonos

You are not going to make a purse out of a sows ear. The Sonos has relatively high jitter compared to the other alternatives. The jitter of the digital source is #1 importance. No DAC is going to fix this, although some upsampler DACs may improve it a little.

I would recommend to either replace the Sonos with Logitech Touch, reclock the Sonos with a good reclocker or get the Sonos modded to improve the jitter.

Then think about a good DAC.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio

Erik, Rockit and Audioengr thanks

If you've got $1k to spend, you should really make it a point to hear the Rega DAC. I like it far better than what's been mentioned. I've owned one since January and am done looking for upgrades for a very long time.

It does a great job with jitter. I run my Apple TV gen 1, cable box, and XBox as transports, and everything sounds great. The ATV/DAC combo sounds far better than my Rega Apollo (as a standalone CDP) ever did. Not even close. I didn't get the chance to connect my Apollo as a transport though.

Kbarkamian Thanks

I have 3 sonos zp80s. running 2 through Apogee MiniDacs, and 1 through a BelCanto Dac2. All sound great, and I picked the Apogee over the Benchmark head to head. Great Dac. It's typically used and well liked by audio engineers. Costs less than 1k.