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Better to buy a high end network player with a DAC?

A good network player does alot.  And some really good players on the higher end include a dac.  Seems to get a really good player, you need to have it come with a dac.  And these dacs seem really amazing, but you lose independence that a separate dac allows.

Why do they force an internal dac on you, and is it all that bad?  Advantages with an internal dac?
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mahler123
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The premise is flawed.  Plenty of great players out there come minus a DAC.  Melco, for one
mahler123
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Melco is indeed a player with a NAS.  No DAC included, which was the point.  I’m talking about their player NAS combo, not the switch, so that comment is a non sequiter.
  Regarding iron lung, what do I need to defend?  I merely said that many players are offered sans DAC.  Scan a catalog from a major retailer and you find a bunch.  I didn’t say putting it all under one bonnet was a bad idea, just that the original premise of the OP, that players that come without DACs are bad, was incorrect 
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