Mark, thank you for your thorough explanation! 
Have you ever compared the result with or without the external boxes?
I can see from where the additional benefits might come, but I'm a bit puzzled with first converting digital to analogue, then again to digital, and a third time back to analogue (in fact a fourth time if you consider the original signal was analogue).
Of course, when you do room correction, this is needed.
Another interesting comparison would be, to send the original analogue signal from your Esoteric directly to the amps in the Valors, without room correction...
You see, the brand has me intrigued!
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