DAC - DCS Bartok or the new Berkeley Alpha DAC 3

I see the AR DAC 9 is about the same price as the Alpha DAC 3.

Tubes may be interesting.  Might pair well with my C22

Thanks for all the great thoughts,  I am certainly willing to spend more on the streamer side but I need multi-room capability but I do not want to use roon.

I think simaudio/moon, naim and auralic all have multiroom.

Are there any other brands I should consider?

Just to be clear the Berkeley I am looking at is the new Alpha 3 (11K) not the reference (25k).

I actually have experience with the Bartok I used to own one ...  I sold the bartok cause lumin announced multiroom I bought the X1 and 2 M1s and I thought I was all set.  

The problem was the lumins do not sync they play a half second off so it sounds horrible in a close zoned multi room set up.  Lumin has this in fine print on their site but I think they should make it clear in their marketing material.  Why make a multi room set up which does not sink.

Anyway....I will be listing a bunch of Lumin gear once I buy the new stuff.  I like the sound of the Lumin and the bartok and a ways back I had the Berkeley Alpha dac 2 which I liked as well.

One thought I had was to go with the Bartok which I could use for 2 channel critical listening and then go with the blue sound or mind2 for the multi room listening.

I know what your thinking I kinda have a gear problem LOL 

Which Berkely did you buy?

 

Aurender does not do multiroom.