From the Auralic website "The Tesla platform has a calculation ability of 25,000 MIPS, more than enough to decode a vast spectrum of audio formats, including AAC, AIFF, ALAC, APE, DIFF, DSF, FLAC, MP3, OGG, WAV, WV and WMA."
I thought that was the dac's job.
Another contradiction, the Aries has a usb input and a usb output