Recommend upgrade DAC


Currently using Cambridge DAC Magic with SB Duet. Have no real complaints and could happily live with it. But, what would be a nice step up in a DAC for around $800-1000 used? Possibly with HDCD decoding?

Also, all CD's ripped to FLAC. Will ripped HDCD's be recognized by SB Duet and pass them on to DAC?
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Tough to beat the Cambridge DAC Magic on price to performance but I like the pedigree of Benchmark DAC1. Less of the off the shelf market components and a lot of in-house development of components and software.

You want to see some type of innovation like the UltraLock™ jitter-immune clock-isolation technology versus using general parts.
You can get this new for under $1K:

http://mytekdigital.com/products/stereo96dac.htm