Mark Levinson 36 dac or Theta Gen V Best?

You are looking at DAC designs that are about 15 years old. Great in their day but that day is long gone.

Herman is right very old dacs. If i were going choose between the m.l 36 and theta V i would pic the theta better bass and soundstage. I owned both of these dacs about 10 years ago but i also had a better transport.

I know they might be older designs but an 8 pound $1,000 dac of today can't sound like one of these older better built monsters that weigh almost 40lbs from the 90's can they? Do you really think a benchmark dac one or something around that would sound better? The only dac that I have heard is a proceed that I bought off ebay a couple of months ago and hated it right out of the box.My CD player sounded better without it!But,it was a cheap dac and should have knowned better.Any advice,I'm all ears.