How well does the ADC work in Behringer DEQ2496?

[Ferbose]

My headphone amp is Bechmark DAC1's built-in amp. I find it rather satisfactory. But DAC1 has no analog input. I am pretty tired of the fact that I don't have a headphone phone amp for analog sources (SACD, cable TV, SACD etc.). What I need is a headphone amp with a pre-amp out (Wooaudio-3 or Gilmore V2). I love using a sub with my K501 these days so a preamp out is useful. But these amps are not inexpensive.

Another creative solution is to have a Behringer DEQ2496. This unit seems to be fun. I can do EQ for headphone and speaker listening for CDs and DVDs. I can also do crossfeed for headphone listening. If I use it between transport and DAC1 it can do all EQ in the digital domain. There has been some posts about DEQ2496 and its sound quality seems quite good. I am wondering if I can use its A/D function as well to feed analog sources to the headphone amp in my DAC1.

So the question is: is the DEQ2496's A/D conversion good enough?
I hope that after A/D conversion it would not turn SACDs back to CDs in terms of sound quality. Benchmark accepts 24/96 so it will take full advantage of the signal after A/D. If the A/D is quite good, I think I can tolerate a little loss due to A/D and D/A conversions in order to gain EQ capabilities for SACDs.
Has anybody used its D/A for DVD-A and SACD analog signals?

 

[Xanadu777]

I use the XLR analog ins rather than digital in. Rigging up a cable was not a problem for me. The analog ins upconvert all signals to 96khz and is usefull in accepting outputs of SACD, since digital won't. I, and others at the Seattle meet today, find the upsampling quite pleasing along with the other features of the DEQ2496. It's a great and versatile unit when considering the $300 price tag. While I haven't A/B'd direct analog SACD output to the 96khz out (your choice of analog or digital), I haven't felt a need to as the sound is fine to these ears...