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Squeezebox touch sounds better than benchmark dac1

Atleast on my system, the squeezebox dac sounds less harsh and has more body. The system consists of Dali Helicon mark 2 and mf nu-vista m3 integrated. Now i'm looking another dac that gives me significant improvment in sounds without the brightness of the benchmark. Any recomendation beside the w4s dac2?
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I have not tried the Touch's built in DAC in my system yet.

Its on my list of things to do...
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I went with an mhdt Constantine for lower cost than Benchmark a couple of years back and have not looked back.

I use it with SB Touch, Roku Soundbridge prior, and my Denon player/recorder on occasion.

The sound quality is consistent and absolute top notch in all cases.

A very good SS DAC that shares some traits with the other popular tube mhdt DACs. Which sounds best will be a function of the rest of the system it is in and listener preference, though I suspect the COnstantine performs better in a pure technical sense (more like Benchmark) than the Paradisea tube DAC that is somewhat comparable in price, at least with teh stock GE tube.
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