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Point of higher priced streamer?

Hello,
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.

What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
From my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)

Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
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jc51373343 posts01-12-2021 7:33pmI 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. 



Of course this makes little sense at all and the opposite is actually true. A high end DAC (in most cases) is designed to mitigate external sources of electrical noise, and if an optical/co-ax connection, jitter.  What exact is "pure" anyway. It is pretty much guaranteed it will be bit perfect unless the streamer intentionally modifies the data stream. So at that point you have noise and jitter. Expensive DACs "should" deal with that far better than a cheaper DAC.
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