budget DACs


I am going to add a wadia itrans and need a good budget dac for it since my digital player does not have a digi in. Ideally it would be small and run cool since I don’t have any space on the rack for it and it is going to sit on the floor next to my rack. I am thinking about the mf v-dac ($300 new) or the bel canto dac2 (~$500+ used). Anybody listen to both and have any thoughts to share? Are there other dacs in the <$500 category used I should be looking at MDHT, etc? Thanks for your input.
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Showing 1 response by ckorody

Second the Valab. You will find it on ebay

The Keces 131 (SPDIF and Toslink) and the 151 (USB) are also from Taiwan. They are beautifully built and excellent sounding. David sometimes has an ad here on the Gon, also on ebay.

They are both very sensitive to power cords.