Should I sell my DAC

@ghulamr,If possible, retain the OPPO and use it as a transport. It is a great player for playing HDCDs. Get a separate DAC, if you can. Consider used DAC that were $2k, which you can get much cheaper now.

Can you stream Tidal MQA vis USB through the Oppo 105?

I have a Modwright Oppo 205 and you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. But since I’m consolidating two listening rooms to one, so the wife can have the room, I will sell my Modwright Oppo Sonica DAC/streamer which sounds identical to the 205.

@nekoaudio great suggestion. It’s just that I have a buyer ready to take the unit off my hands. Recently I did purchase node 2i and benchmark dac3 for my main listening room and couldn’t be happier. The OPPO takes up a lot of room in my office and I am hoping I can find a ‘better’ and smaller dac for $1100 range. Very happy with the sound from OPPO but after listening to the benchmark dac I do know that dac’s make a difference. Which one - I don’t know yet.  

@ghulamr both the OPPO and Benchmark use ESS SABRE chipsets, so sounds like you like the overall sound of the ESS, and if you like the DAC3 more than the OPPO BDP-105 then I'd guess you want something as clean and detailed as possible.

That being the case, you might actually like a used OPPO Sonica DAC as something less expensive than the DAC3 but potentially better than the BDP-105. Looks like there is a Sonica DAC on eBay right now.

Another ESS option in your price range is the Matrix Element i, but I haven't heard one myself.