T+A DAC 200: Our New Favorite Solid-State DAC?

NOTE: The close-up product photos show the T+A HA 200 headphone amp, not the DAC 200. We apologize for the error!

Special guest and T+A America CEO, Dave Nauber, talks with Kevin about the outstanding German T+A DAC 200. With four DAC chips per channel, a fully discrete layout, an in-house 1-bit DSD design, and discrete volume control, the DAC 200 is difficult to beat.

[prakashkanji]

I run a dac 200 straight to two PL Evo 400 power amps and there is magic every time.
So see-through and yet solid wide sound stage. Absolutely incredible.
If you're in the market for a dac you MUST try this one.

[jitrapornpha]

Shame he left Classe, whatever happened there

[benburridge]

been using my dac 200 with hq player to upsample to DSD and its the best dac i have heard thus far, prefer it to dacs costing 2x to even 3x its price

[mikehuntington]

Wow.... I just watched the 12-minute commercial.

Edit: I only watched 4 minutes.

[CarlVanDoren]

How will it compare to 😮
W4S 10th edition DAC2V2SE?

[Simplyveej]

I love Melanie’s Brand New Key! Did not reject that to be mentioned here :)

[JeremyHughes-cq]

This is by far the best DAC available currently - the DSD unique 1 bit discrete converter is mind blowing. I convert all PCM to DSD256 and all the problems of digital of the past 40 years are finally gone. There is a solid mathematical reason for this improvement which is too long to go into here. Suffice to say low latency tap filters in all previous generations of DAC technology causes significant audible distortion. This Rob Watts figured this out too but T+A path separation has taken things to a whole other level.

[JohnLee-dbzt]

The separate DSD and PCM path is not unique, lol. Other DAC manufacturers do the same, Pure marketing jibberish.