Oppo Sonica DAC Expected this fall

@aberyclark 

Are you referring to media players in general? According to Oppo the UDP203 and 205 do support gapless. By memory I believe the function is on the remote, but I don't recall reading it in the manual. And I'm speaking of flac and wav files. I'm not sure about other formats.

Going to work up mods on this baby.  Will have mods from a about $250 dollars on up.  First person that sends me one to mod will get the mod at cost of parts plus $100.  Even a simple mod will make it sound way, way better.  I do lots of different things to improve the sound.

http://www.themanual.com/music/oppo-sonica-dac-network-streamer-announced/

Thanks for your comments above regarding the Oppo Sonica DAC.  I appreciate the additional information that was posted.

After I posted my Oppo Sonica question above, I did some additional research on the Ayre Codex DAC and like it very much.  The Ayre Codex DAC is an amazing small 3 pound box that helps my system sound much better.  My Ayre Codex DAC is laying on its side with 3 Ayre Myrtle wooden blocks ($15 for 3) holding it up.  I saw it this way at my retailer and they they recommended it be used in the laying down position.  My Codex DAC is connected, using a James Romeyn Pure Balanced POWer Fully Balanced Interconnect cable with Cardas Rhodium XLR Connectors, to my Ayre AX-7e integrated amplifier and, after break in time, the Ayre Codex DAC is highly recommended.  The sound quality is much improved with the Codex DAC.  

The Cardas Rhodium XLR Connectors also take a while to break in but really help to improve the sound quality after several weeks.  

I'm into the Sonica about 5 days now, leaving it on the whole time, and it sounds very natural.  I've been playing it back and forth for a while and at first only thought it was marginally better than my OPPO 105.  However, after playing a variety of music...most of which I thought poorly recorded in digital...it seems this DAC does offer some improvements that make it worth consideration of keeping.  For instance, I have a lot of Rolling Stones on SACD and ripped to DSD (Exile/Let it Bleed)...never thought it sounded right, too forward and lots of glare and harshness.  Most of these characteristics are now gone on the Sonica DAC.  I admit I've rearranged my room in ways that optimize my power cords but I can A/B relatively easy via wireless DNLA between the 105 and the Sonica...there is an improvement in depth, detail and naturalness.  I'll give it a full 30 days before making up my mind, but the jury is still out...I wish it was super obvious but at this point my audition needs more music to really decide.