Why dont more standalone DACs come with ethernet???

@jumia

i guess an ethernet signal requires a transformation before being allowed into a dac via usb cable.

Maybe you will take this path if your ethernet in plugged into a computer or server which is connected to a DAC via USB.  However, many DACs take ethernet direct and there is no need for USB unless you want to connect another source with a USB output.  Ethernet and USB are both digital so there is no conversion between the two. The only thing that changes is the protocol that each technology is bound to.   

Brilliant reply, last paragraph key.

so bit stream conversion necessary before reaching the dac.  
A network player does this.  Dont want a streamer as it comes with lots of extra stuff i dont want.  

What about the rendering process, related to bit stream conversion?

thanks so much

@treebeard1. “However, many DACs take ethernet direct and there is no need for USB...”

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Then that is technically a DAC with a streamer. A pure DAC will not have that function.
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There is the streamer function, the DAC function, the preamp function, the amplification function and the speaker function. They can be all in a single devise or in a combination. The connection types vary between the function if in different boxes.

I dont like happy meals, i like to buy it all separate.  
Focus is the streamer in its purist form.  Is it a network player?  Doing only bit stream conversion?

standalone DACs come with ethernet make better sound,that is the reason,and I believe more and more DAC will have that input.

It is not a streamer! It is DAC with new input.  That's it.