What is the best DAC ever made?

Plus it is coming next year.

When? Now or next week? What are the chances there will be agreement? Why do you care?

Buy the Kondo; you are right. I do think, however, that the gap will between vinyl and digital will never be bridged, narrowed perhaps.

I listen to digital nearly every weekday night, and everytime I play vinyl it is to my utter amazement at how much better it is. Better, but less convenient, especially if you love the new 45 rpm versions of old lps.

It is the eternal quest to seek the best. Don't rain on our parade. Certainly there will be little consensus. If we realized how little, this forum would not exist.

See the Accustic Arts thread for another perspective.

A curious hypothesis-only those who live in "third world" countries can come up with the same dumb ideas that came out of our auto industry. I don't expect that you have ever heard the APL equipment.

I just put a Weiss Minerva dac into my system yesterday. With no breakin and used only with the Oppo universal player as a transport, I is shockingly good. The sound stage is just so real. Ultimately, I will be using a Mac Powerbook Pro running Amarra software and onto the Minerva by firewire. The Minerva has this input. I heard this system at the RMAF, but no effort had been made to optimize the room for listening. I can hardly wait to get this system set up having already heard this dac.

I neglected to post that I now have the Weiss Dac202. It is very impressive.