It has the built in DAC featuring a high-precision, low-jitter TI Burr-Brown PCM5121 DAC with support of up to 384 kHz/32-bit audio with 106 dB SNR. It can support up to 24 bit/192 kHz digital audio output with gapless playback and hi-res lossless audio. Currently, we don't have the comparison with the CS4396 used by the Bluesound node.