If you are streaming, I find streaming so much easier to listen to with a tube DAC.
Alan Sircom described the Dave as “listening to a direct feed from the mixing desk”.
Whereas the Brinkmann Nyquist will “summon up the musicians and conductors in front of you, in a kind of holographic simulation of the live event. The comparison is one of head vs. heart if you like, with the Nyquist taking the ‘heart’ route all the way.”
If you plan to keep the DAC long term, it’s a pretty easy to figure out which DAC will be easier to live with over the long run.