Bel Canto DAC2 owners' advice please

Karelfd - why don't you try jitter rejecting Bel Canto DAC3 or cheaper Benchmark DAC1? It will save you a lot of money for good transport and digital cable or improve performance greatly with the cheap transport and cable.

Jitter is a noise in time domain and eliminating it will make better clarity of the sound.

I use Benchmark DAC1 with $70 DVD player and self made cheap cable with great results. I drive power amp directly since Benchmark has volume Control.

Be careful with used Benchmarks since they went thru many revisions. According to Stereophile review Bel Canto DAC3 sounds a little better but is more expensive (two times).

I have one a DAC 2. I found that the stereovox digital cable sounded best on my system (only tried about 3 different cables) and that was about 3 or 4 years ago. Also, at the time, I found that the cheapest cardas cable sounded better than a Golden Reference on the DAC2. Again, my results were only based on a few tests.

There have been a lot of new (and less expensive) digital and power cables introduced since I first evaluated my DAC2.

Not much of a help, I am afraid....