From Wadia to ???


Recently owned a Wadia 381. However, i sold it to buy a usb dac.
As usual with Wadia, algorithm A is Wadias own and also what i preferred.
To you who are much better at me, what brand/ model is closest to Wadia sound ideal, without the cost of a Wadia?

Might add that i look for a dac with pre-amp feature (XLR).
rird

I can't be more happy after moving from a Wadia 861se to a Mytek 192-DSD a few year back and then to a Mytek Brooklyn (which is a much better DAC compare to the 192-dsd). Please note that all my PCM music gets convert on the fly to output at 2xDSD.

Cheers. gigi

You might consider the Exogal Comet, Exogal was started by Wadia's former engineers and the Comet has gotten some rave reviews. I've not heard it, or Wadia for that matter, but suspect the house sound might be similar.
Mytek, are they close to Wadia in sound? I read somewhere it was rather forward?
Exogal seems interesting!
Anyone of you listened to Audio Alchemy DDP1?