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“With its DAC stage bypassed, the Brooklyn DAC+ can also function as only a preamplifier through the use of its single-ended RCA inputs. Having already run my computer into the Brooklyn’s digital USB input, I tested its analog input using my Benchmark DAC2 HGC as a source, and found its sound less engaging than when I’d used it as a combination DAC-preamp plugged directly into my ARC D300 power amp. Used as a preamp only, the Mytek still produced wide soundstages on which voices and instruments were located clearly but those stages were shallower than when its DAC stage was in circuit. “Always On My Mind,” from the Pet Shop Boys’ live album Inner Sanctum (16/44.1 FLAC, Sony Japan/Tidal), was flatter from front to back. Nonetheless, bass slam remained solid, and the Mytek continued to impress me with the evenhandedness of its reproduction of the midrange and upper octaves — nothing was glaring or too forward. My reference preamplifier, a Hegel Music Systems P20, presented deeper soundstages and a more fleshed-out personality to Neil Tennant’s voice, and overall this live recording had a more open sound than through the Mytek.”

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