Best Dock , DAC

Thanks Steve . I'll give it a try .

Thanks for the feedback ( Polarin ) . Glad to hear the pure i20 is an improvement . That does tell me something .
I think I now have it narrowed down to two units . Arcam has a dock-Dac the DRdac , for $325, that looks worthwhile , Krell also has the K.I.D. for $2000 . It's also a preamp but doesn't have any other inputs .

Steve ,, where do you take the digital out from, from a dock or from the I-pod itself ?

Well , I took the first step , I've had an Arcam I-dock running in the garage for the past 30 hours . It does have a SPDIF digital output so a decent DAC will likely be next . Although , from the onset the sound was quite good , tinkering with some higher end RCAs that had been lounging around in a box for far too long , I heard one that was a match made in audio heaven , a pair of Vandenhul's . My yap was agape for three or four songs . I can't recall hearing a component that was so changed by interconnect's .

Should have said Arcam drDock .