What is the best DAC ever made?

the new Accustic Arts-NEW 66/1036 dac coming out this summer .
I found this out in Vegas .This will be tightly guarded and patented.From what I hear this one will smoke the competition

Dodson 218. With a ref Audio Mods modded CEC TL-iX, I have heard nothing better.

Neal

Museatex Bidat (modded).

i run my ALOIA 11.01 cdp through a SCOTT NIXON DAC($600 with power supply).....not too shabby...brent

http://www.dagogo.com/AccusticArtsDriveI-DACIMk3.html
read this as I did than go listen this is fact
the accustic arts 32/384 is the worlds first accumulator.
Accustic arts exclusive.
And the worlds best OPA627 DIFET®, from Burr Brown.
Thisis 10x more expensive and accurate than it's nearest competitor. This dac ,with their transport is clearly the best even at 2x the price .We have seen and compared ,with any solid state dac . In valves it is more subsective .
This is more musical than the Zanden at much less money.
for My musical tastes, it does some things better also.

Good sugestion Teajay...I just might try that!

Ben

I believe that a German company builds a $60k DAC - if there were any correltation between cost and I'd quality I'd hope that one was the best, although we all know how that often is not the case.

I don't know the best DAC ever made, but I use a Threshold DAC-2 with a Theta Jade transport and Illuminati Orchid AES/EBU cable.
I like the DAC-2 better then my ex Theta DSPro Basic 3a.

I'm sure it is far from the best, but I'm using a new Audio Aero Prima SE DAC with the upgraded caps and cryoed tubes ($5.7K) via a Siltech Golden Ridge G5 digital cable from my Sony SCD-1 and it is pure magic. Nicer than the Capitole MKII I used for redbook before it. The preamp section is also good. I run the sacd of the Sony through it.

Bearotti, I don't believe their is one "BEST" DAC ever made, however if you want alot of information regarding reference DACS I would recommend you go to a thread I started entitled, Reference DACS: An overall perspective, that you would find very interesting regarding this topic.

Burwin Bobcat?