a DAC is more than just the DA conversion, it is also the first pre-pre-amp in your analogue chain
Call me old fashioned, but how the US English language has changed!
I still think of a Digital to Analogue Converter (DAC) as just having the function of turning a digital signal into an analogue equivalent. As such it is often implemented as a chip, and such chips offer vastly different capabilities which can often be discovered by looking at (what is missing from) their respective specification sheets.