I don't completely agree that the DAC inside the Node is not that great. It sounds really good to me. I guess my external Bifrost 2 or Benchmark sounds slightly better but when I play most MQA files through Node alone it sounds very, very good. YMMV
A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC?
Is there such an animal? I mean… why buy high quality and then have to thread it into my Bluesound Node DAC?