What’s as good as a Weiss 202?
I have to say garbage in garbage out,this is the weiss for me.That would be it. No ‘budget’.
The question is given the 202 is 12 years old, what else might be around that would have a similar performance…
I know there are some on PFM that have tried a lot of different DACs
Heard one last night straight into a Quad 606 and it was absolutely extraordinary.
According to my observations dacs usually go in 3x price steps. So to be relatively safe in terms of next step performance it may be essential to spend 3 times (sure, there’re are always used or ex-demo bargains out there, it’s just a rough example). Brand becomes not so important in this case, any decent weiss/lampizator/dcs/audio note/chord… is a good dac.No ‘budget’.