Server/Streamer or Streamer/DAC?


Hi,
does anybody have any insight into which of the above two options is overall better (e.g. more Pros and/or less Cons) than the other one, including bang-for-the-buck considerations, points of evolution, flexibility, total cost of ownership, SQ, and many other criteria, anything that comes to your mind?
fiza

Showing 1 response by antigrunge2

Streamers improve on computers by better and multiple power supplies, better USB ports and software as well as lots of measures to suppress EMI/RFI that computers tend to not much care about.
The resulting SQ is in a different zip code altogether. 
There are though people on this forum that believe that a good DAC will through its noise rejection deal with all the issues streamers are trying to solve, I for one have never encountered such a DAC.