Question for DACs

The Bel Canto Dac 1 is an upsamlling dac and would probably work well with your DVD player, particularly its toslink output. It should give you a significant improvement. Unfortunately, the Bel Canto lists for $1,295 but is available used for $900. If $900 is too much, there is a dac called the Birdland Odeon Lite, which I think is around $800 and is also an upsampler but I have only read about it.

I really like my Bel Canto DAC1. Check out these reviews, I think they might answer your questions. Good Luck,Charlie http://www.onhifi.com/product.shtml http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/belcanto_dac1.htm http://www.soundstage.com/revequip/belcanto_dac1_followup.htm

HuiJames, I'm sorry. I meant to say, in my first post, that I really, really love my DAC1. I find it is like having a whole new library of remastered cd's, except for those that have a lot of hiss or drop off from the master tape or due to poor production, (ain't no fixin' that,) and it has made me forget the question of "what is the next format?" Charlie