Use of Denafrips Iris 12th DDC with computer

It's amazing to see that some folks on this audiophile site still choose to stream music directly from computer to dac. An inexpensive streamer will improve your experience 10 fold vs adding any DDC between your computer and dac. Not speaking of experience, just common sense. Computer noise is what you are trying to improve. A streamer will do that, a DDC won't.

@mesch 

Going from a Jay's transport to an Audio mirror dac has to spoil you pretty good soundwise. If all you need your computer to dac for is background music for a secondary system, I seriously doubt you will hear a noticeable difference with a DDC. We are usually talking critical listening here, not background music. And a DDC main goal is to turn usb feed into something else, AES, I2s, coax or optical. Going usb in and usb out is just unheard of. Since you were talked into the DDC  I hope it will make you happy. BTW, I do use one, turning usb into I2s. It does the required job.

@mesch 

I would try something like the ifi silencer+/usb noise filter at $59.  It makes so much more sense than the DDC in your application.