New McIntosh DA2 DAC

I have AURALiC Aries G2 and Vega G2 into c2700. Yesterday I tried connecting from Aries directly into c2700 and the result is very positive. McIntosh may not be known for their DAC. But from what I tried. DA2 is very neutral sounding like Vega G2. To my ears, DA2 may lose a bit at soundstage. Other than that, it is a fine DAC.

I applaud McIntosh for its move to a modular DAC design. I read elsewhere on this site that McIntosh chose a ESS Sabre 9028pro chipset for its DA2 (the DA1 incorporated the ESS Sabre ES9016). I like the sound of the c2700 with its DA2 and pair it with the mc312. For simplicity, I feed it by coax from a Sonos connect because streaming technology is moving too quickly for me to spend more on streaming hardware at the moment.