Hello gents. I've actually been following this thread, although not at a high level of detail yet.
 
It is possible that a DAC is in the works. It might actually be a DAC that mates with the Carbon.
 
Who can say...........
 
However, as someone pointed out, you guys have placed quite a few requirements or requests for product features into this fairly long discussion. A bit of a challenge for me to pull them all out accurately so I am wondering, can you all think of a way we can summarize these?  Now would be a very good time to feed them into the product cycle of an imaginary DAC.