So, Steve, if your DAC only has a USB interface then you're SOL?
So, if you bother to look, you would see that the Overdrive SX has S/PDIF coax, I2S and (galvanically isolated USB or Ethernet) inputs.
My point here is to not focus only on the DAC as a panacea. The source is equally important. They are both important.
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Steve, I couldn't agree more. But I'm still stuck here, and at the risk of sounding stupid, I need to understand where my system could use some help as the ONLY input on my current DAC is USB. (I think you interpreted the word "your" in my comment above as my meaning your Overdrive SX DAC; I meant your as in "one's").
I have an Eero-based wireless mesh network using a Windows 10 PC. Software is JRiver / JPlay out through the PC's USB port. Setting aside power supply issues for the time being and focusing solely on USB jitter, Marcin at JPlay recommends his JCAT USB Card Femto to improve the USB implementation from the source
There's the Empirical Audio's Short Block USB filter, but I think you discontinued this and it's unclear whether it would work with my USB Border Patrol DAC anyway. The Offramp 5 doesn't appear to have an output interface that would "square up" with my DAC's USB port.
Could you offer some advice/insight? I feel I'm missing something.