Point of higher priced streamer?

I didn't feel like reading through the volleyball match of one-sided opinions on this entire thread, so maybe you mentioned it. What DAC do you have? I mean, I'd say yeah it won't make a huge impact on a lower end DAC, but it's a FACT a streamer makes a size-able, audible, not so subtle difference in higher end systems with a DAC that's able to respond to a more pure source. 

The way you need to look at this is simple...Back in the day, did a shitty TEAC CD player sound better than a high end CD Player? Just replace CD player with Streamer and you have your answer. The DAC in the Node 2i, would qualify as a very low end DAC. In HiFi terms anyway. 

The OP is long gone. He said he joined ASR for advice. In fact, I am pretty sure he did not intend to gather any advice here. More like throwing a grenade and enabling various snake oil screechers, including the biggest of them all, the guy who keeps coming back over and over with different usernames, after being banned at least five times.

Ask-hole

noun

A person who asks for advice, but keeps doing the same thing.

^^ lol that was funny 

Ask-hole!! 😂😂 Funny!

What not so funny is these types of folks mastering the art of trolling, and starting the flame wars by “asking a question”, or “trying to understand”, or “learning”.