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I wouldn't know anything about that.. Great! There are actually one or two on Audiogon that are selling for around $1000 so I'm sure if I knock off $100 it should sell. And if anyone is worried I'll point them to Icarium's and your posts.. Thanks for all the advice. I can't wait to get off work now! Not exactly looking forward to lugging it through public transport though.

That's true. So I guess the question is whether the technology has moved on far enough so that $900 for a 15 year old $5000 DAC is not worth it. Also, I'm using a NOS DAC now so it's not exactly like my current DAC is at the forefront of modern technology.

You guys are more negative than I thought you would be! I guess my aim is to find a DAC that's significantly better than my Havana (which is a NOS DAC) without spending a lot more money. The owner says that he had no time to use it so it's only been used for 100 hours (which I'm not sure I believe). Also, I'm not too worried about 16/44.1 since the Havana that I'm using now can only do redbook as well. That's good to hear. Apparently, you can add a module to upgrade it to MKII. I'll check if they have this. That's interesting. I couldn't find anywhere with a review of the MKIII so I'm not sure of the differences. Either way, they both presumably would be more expensive than the MKI and I'm not looking to spend a lot of money. I'll probably go get it tonight. Since the price is decent, I think I won't have a problem selling it on later if it's not to my taste. If people are interested, I can post some pics later.

Hello Head-case, As you can see, I am new here but I have a question on a vintage DAC that will probably be better answered here than at the other place. I recently came across someone local selling a Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 DAC (MK1) locally for a decent price (around USD$900). This DAC is around 15 years old and got glowing reviews from Stereophile when it was released: Stereophile: Sonic Frontiers SFD-2 D/A processor I was thinking of buying it tomorrow evening but I was wondering if anyone here knows any reason NOT to get it? Can anyone guess how it will compare with modern DACs?