All are excellent choices.
Alternative to these could be RMI ADI 2 Pro or Teac 501.
Lots of great DACs out there.
Mytek is bit further back from the front row seating presentation of the other two but not much in it.
Benchmark is robust and will handle everything you can throw at it without flinching, any input, any PCM sample rate, and any cable will convert perfectly with their punchy front row sound - as long as the source file is the same it will sound the same (as the upsampling in Benchmark’s FPGA is as audibly equivalently as good as you can do in software like Roon. Only thing you could do externally is a heavier slow filter to roll the treble.)
Mytek does MQA. Personally I don’t like the distortion that MQA adds and don’t use MQA even on my fully MQA devices but that might be a feature you would consider.
Alternative to these could be RMI ADI 2 Pro or Teac 501.
Lots of great DACs out there.
Mytek is bit further back from the front row seating presentation of the other two but not much in it.
Benchmark is robust and will handle everything you can throw at it without flinching, any input, any PCM sample rate, and any cable will convert perfectly with their punchy front row sound - as long as the source file is the same it will sound the same (as the upsampling in Benchmark’s FPGA is as audibly equivalently as good as you can do in software like Roon. Only thing you could do externally is a heavier slow filter to roll the treble.)
Mytek does MQA. Personally I don’t like the distortion that MQA adds and don’t use MQA even on my fully MQA devices but that might be a feature you would consider.