Any audiophile use computer (MacBook) as your audio streaming source?

Useful information here.

What I picked up reading through this thread:

- noticeable sound improvement is due to DAC

- noticeable sound improvement with streamer only at certain price range (ex. Aurender, etc)

- lower priced streamer advantage is mostly for convenience 

@illusionista8 When I had 3 streamers in the house, $2k, $3k, and $15k. I tested them out side by side and found they sounded different, which was surprising. However, I would not say 1 streamer was better than the other.

@yyzsantabarbara appreciate sharing your observations. Would you mind sharing which streamers they were?

Could it be that the DAC in the streamer is better than what you used when using a computer as file source? So what you are hearing is not computer vs streamer, but different DACs.

I’m not going to say this is total garbage , but it indicates very low knowledge about what is going on here. Most of the high end streamers most are referring to here do not have built in DAC’s, so no that is not what we are hearing.

Even if you don’t like Winer,

But what this guy says is total garbage. I didn’t read this article but from some posts I have read from Winer previously, anyone who claims cabling doesn’t make a difference is not an audiophile. Winer, just like ASR proponents, if people do the exact opposite of the advice given from them you will most likely get better sound. If someone built a system using a batch of "not recommended" components I bet it would sound pretty good. 

Here is the inside of a $4,000 Bryston BDP-3 audiophile streamer. Computer aficionados will be familiar with much of the componentry.