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DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3

Looking for a dac trying to decide between DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3.

I will not be able to hear them before I buy so I am looking for general thoughts.

They will be paired with MC462 and C22.  I have Revel 228BE speakers.

I am also looking for a streamer that can do multiroom with out roon.

Currently considering Bluesound node or Moon MIND2

Thanks
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drbond
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Just curious, how would an Esoteric streamer/DAC, such as the $20k N-01XD compare with the $15-20k DCS, Berkeley, and ARC DAC's?   
Thanks. 
drbond
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@gerryah930

How does the Esoteric sound compare to DCS, ARC in your opinion?
drbond
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I know almost nothing about DAC, except that there are at least two different approaches to DAC: a delta sigma approach, and an R2R approach.  Are all of these DAC's (ARC, Berkeley, and DCS) delta sigma DAC's?

drbond
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It appears that most of the DACs are not set up to receive 2 channel input from a CD transport.  They all have 2 channels out, but just various connections for streaming, but nothing for transports.  How would I connect a transport to one of these?

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