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For the exact same money you can buy a Monarchy Audio M24 DAC

and it sounds MUCH better, IMO.

The Monarhcy M24 is an 8 x oversampling design (BB DF1704 so it handles 24bit 96Khz inputs even if it is not a 24/96 dac) using the Burr Brown PCM63P-K true 20bit DAC chips.

OP-AMPS??? Not a single one. The output filter and gain stage is handled by 1 6922 tube per channel in an SRPP configuration.

Oh yeah, it also has a hell of a good preamp; on a separate PCB even with separate power transformer and supply and accepts one other analog input. This is also a single tube per channel SRPP design.

When this much nicer machine is avaiable for the same price I can't really imagine the success of the Benchmark.

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