It's eerie how much my opinions/experience overlap @charles1dad 😎I use the same roughly 12 year old Dac and it sounds fantastic. I also heard the BP Dac in the same show system as Charles and loved the system overall. And I agree you can't condemn all older Dacs many are quite musical and revealing with Redbook. I cannot comment on ARC Dacs specifically however it sounds like others who've heard it don't recommend it very strongly never a great sign.
