Bluesound installed DAC - music killer?


Ever throw a sheet over your speakers?  Sure sounded like this to me when I began using bluesound.  Soooo disappointing.   So it will be resigned to a streamer after a new DAC arrives.
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Ever since NAD started offering components featuring both BluOS and Dirac Live, I've been hoping for the Lenbrook folks to offer an upscale BluOS network player (preferably without a DAC) that was both Roon Ready and featured Dirac Live with either the NAD or BluOS label.
Like a Super Bluesound Node 2i with Dirac Live, with or without a DAC, but definitely with digital outputs.  In fact, I've been looking for anybody that offered such a player that featured Dirac Live that was also Roon Ready. I don't know of any at this time.
@asw  NAD, Bluesound, and PSB Speakers are all part of the Lenbrook Group head quartered in Pickering, Ontario, Canada.  The product you are thinking of is the NAD C658, which is a DAC, preamp, and network player, which among other things features Dirac Live room correction. 
Sort of like a Bluesound Node 2i on steroids; but unlike the Node 2i, without to my knowledge digital outputs.  I've read about it, but have no personal experience with it.  A couple years ago, I considered it, but settled on a Chord Qutest.  I've been a BluOS user since 2014, and have 4 pieces of Bluesound kit in the house.