Esoteric and Yaqin

The issue brings a question. I have an Esoteric K07 SACD player that can also perform as a DAC. I have what is a suprisingly nice Yaqin CD player, built like a Sherman tank and sounds pretty darn good. I moved it from my secondary system to the main ... next to the Esoteric. I've purchase, but have not yet recieved, DH Labs digital cable. I got this idea to use the Esoteric's DAC when playing the Yaqin. The Yaqin has two Northern Electric output tubes .... so the analog signal runs thru the output tubes and on thru the system. My question is, when connected to the Esoteric DAC, am I bypassing  output section of the Yaqin and therefore the influece of the Yaqin tubes? I must be. Thanks for the help.