I've compared a high end streamer to an old Macbook Pro with 3 different DACs. One DAC sounded better with the high end streamer, another DAC sounded better on the Macbook while the 3rd DAC seemed to not care which streamer was used, they both sounded good. The point I am making is you have to listen yourself with your equipment as I was really surprised a $4000+ streamer sounded not as good as an old Macbook on my current favorite DAC.