Glad to hear that you have avoided the DAC wormhole!
When I bought that DAC, which was quite a long time ago, I also had a Meridian CD player. I listened back to back CD / FLAC and couldn't tell the difference so sold the CD player.
Makes sense. I might change it up when Spotify HiFi eventually comes out. Been looking at HifiBerry + DAC, building it all into a custom pre-amp with phono stage but as far as I can see it won't have the convenience of voice control and Google Home integration.
Glad to hear that you have avoided the DAC wormhole!
When I bought that DAC, which was quite a long time ago, I also had a Meridian CD player. I listened back to back CD / FLAC and couldn't tell the difference so sold the CD player.