I'm tempted to get a Scarlett to use as a DAC and occasionally for recording, but am held back by the fact that I once wrote an email to Audient to ask about using one of their components as a DAC in a stereo system, and they said they didn't recommend it - without saying why.
You are looking for a 2 channel D/A convertor for consumer use. You know, to consume audio material. The consumer also has demands like user friendliness, from a desktop or living room point of view. So a remote control, display and selectable inputs, volume control and mute on/off.
The Pro-sound market is very different. From their point of view, it is for content creation. It’s excellence is in with AD conversion and microphone preamps...