It's more universal, but as Daniel points out, there is a lot of information in raw files and each raw converter looks at it differently. I'm not sure Adobe is the best route, but it is similar to what you are comfortable with. If you search the site a bit, you can prolly trip over a discussion or two about it. I think if you shoot sraw stuff, don't be surprised if the file size increases by a quite a bit after dng conversion.