Digital improvements possible?

@lincnabby  
 
MQA is lossy, it competes with MP3, impossible to be better than CD or higher.  People who boast about 96kHz or 192kHz have no clue what it even means. Firstly, we can’t hear that high. Secondly, most systems can’t even reproduce audio that high (wether it be the DAC, pre-amp, amp, and/or speakers).

Are you using the USB or the optical output of the MacBook? I use the optical output of an iMac for a substantial part of my listening, going wirelessly to a Gen 3 Apple TV and Simaudio 300D DAC in my main system and directly to a Simaudio 100D DAC in my office. Of all the changes I've made in wires, tubes, etc., by far the greatest improvement to the sound in both systems came from putting a Wyred4Sound Remedy reclocker ahead of each DAC. In particular, the improvement in the office system was much greater than any amp or speaker switch I'd made.

I got the reclockers because of numerous references I'd seen to the high jitter from the Apple devices. And my experience bears out the importance of that. The change was considerably more dramatic in the office system using the Simaudio 100D than in the main system with the Simaudio 300D. I'm assuming that's because the more expensive 300D does a better job of handling the jitter on its own.

No experience using USB so my experience may not apply in your situation.

Thanks for all the input folks!
Erik- someday I hope to run a good quality Ethernet line directly to my MacBook, though our modem is on first floor and my listening room is upstairs. Still, perhaps it would improve SQ over WiFi. 

Brotw- thanks for sharing your experience with Live Dirac- I’ll check it out. I tried Audirvana for Tidal and was unimpressed, but perhaps it was a processing issue with my Mac. At the time I hadn’t upgraded memory on my laptop. Now I have more. 

Mahler123- I have an Osyssey Kismet stereo amp and a JE Labs 6sn7/76 tube based linestage. I think it pairs pretty well with the Vandys.