Hugo2, chordmojo, dragonfly, optical..

[jaggededge]

Hi there, I’ve been using tidal for the last month, I’m trying to get the best possible sound out of my reactors and was wondering if optical connection is the best.
As i is use iPhone and iPad as my main audio devices and i know these two aren’t capable of optical,i came across these external Dac’s where you convert the signal from your phone into analogue audio.
The question is
Is this sort of device good or necessary when you already have reactors own DAC?
And if this device is good and indeed makes a difference, would it be worth to buy and use alongside tidal compared to airplay??
Should i try and find an optical connection solution like this? Or AirPlay is close sound wise

I am using roon with auralic aries mini via optical out to the reactor 900's, I have DSP set to 24bit / 96 in roon so that the reactors onboard dac has less work to do thus in theory getting pretty decent sound quality. I also own a mojo but have not tried this out with the reactors yet.

How much difference in sound quality you feel while steaming direct to phantoms vs using the aries mini ? Is it worth the extra $$?