End your search for a DAC by purchasing the Kora Hermes at 1500 on Audiogon - it use to sell for 3795 in 1998 and has since been upgraded to 24/192. It is a great sounding and looking piece that happens to have tubes. Whether it sounds great with my ECM 1 because of that is beyond me. I use it with a tube amp on the top (McIntosh 2102) and a solid state amp the 352 for lower end. I recently tried a Perpetual tech P-1A digital correction between the ECM and Kora and it really naturalized the digital sound even beyond my hopes for regular CD playback. It sells for 500-1000 on audiogon. These two even make my lesser transport (Pioneer 65) sound great too. Good luck!
