Cary Audio DAC 200 ts Opinions

I have one and its excellent in my system - Supratek pre, custom GM70 monos with Duelund CAST caps etc, Devore 96's - basically a very high end system and the DAC200ts totally lifts the rig. Sorry to hear it did not work out for you, in your system, as far as i am concerned its an awesome DAC and Cary seemed decent sorts when purchasing. Just my 2cents..

I enjoy mine very much. I did use the Mcintosh MCD1100 as my DAC and it sounded very good but the Cary with its tube out option won me over

I like mine.  I haven't tried any DSD through it, unfortunately, but the choices of tube/ss stage and upsampling work well to tailor to different music.  The tube v. solid state isn't as quite as different as I thought it would be, but it's a noticeable and worthwhile tweak.  Using the tube stage with a passive is nice and an improvement over the internal volume control, although I've been told that it shouldn't be because of however Cary implemented it.

While fun, it can be a little bit of a distraction from the music to have the urge to fiddle with it.  Oooh, let's try the solid state with this song...um, should try it again with the tubes and upsampled another step.