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Yeah, absolutely. It's not just about power, it's about how faithfully your DAC converts 1s and 0s into an analogue signal, and you'll hear the difference in equipment in things like imaging, instrument separation, soundstage, decay, etc. A good DAC/amp combo will make your headphones sound good, but a great one will make music sound realistic.
If you're near a city my advice would be to either find an audio store near you that will let you bring in your headphones to try on their equipment or check out if there are any head-fi meetups near you where individuals and sometimes companies bring their stuff for people to try. But if you can afford the Euforia I'd get that first and upgrade the DAC later since you already have good equipment and the amp will probably be more of a noticeable improvement between both components.
Stuff like imaging, instrument separation, soundstage etc. is entirely source dependent. A song has been produced/mixed/mastered in a certain way and once you have the final file/signal, no DAC in this world will „improve it by faithfully converting 1s and 0s“ or whatever that even means. This is way, way, way beyond its ability. The information is either in the source or it isn’t and measurements show that any half decent DAC does nothing to the signal that you can hear and even if it did, it wouldn’t be improvements to the instrument separation lmao
I understand that accepting this would probably mean that you wasted money on expensive gear that does the same job as some dongle at a fraction of the price, but your claims in the first paragraph of your comment are absolutely ridiculous.