Point of higher priced streamer?

I used a rice streamer today. Works great; rich, full-bodied flavor without a hint of harshness. And a bargain at 17.99.

So really a windows laptop as the source running to a dac should sound no different than a streamer as the source running to the same dac.

Is that correct? 

I have a few new monickers for audio design that will come in handy when he is banned and wants to pop up again ...

navel-gazer-123
i-am-legend-007
Hydra-09

You can thank me later. 

LOL @arafiq 

One thing is guaranteed: he WILL be resurrected again if banned. And again, and again...

No matter what, it will be easy to spot when he does.

Because it is not just a nice idea in theory, it is factual in practice. With asynchronous USB, there is absolutely no timing data incorporated in the data stream. None, zip, nada, 0.  It is not a matter of resolving arrival timing errors .... there are none to resolve. This statement shows gross ignorance about how the stuff he is supposed to be an expert on actually works.

Then comes the argument that the DAC will resolve all data arrival-timing errors by first buffering them and then re-clocking them before sending them onto the decoder chip. That’s a nice idea in theory but experience tells us otherwise.

You asked for one. I jumped through your hoop.  There are more errors in this document. But this is so gross an error to make all others pointless to point out.