@mgrif104 The Dutch & Dutch 8c was originally conceived as a studio monitor. As far as I can tell, EVERYTHING about it, and every component, have been optimized. They have some of the most startling imaging I've ever heard, as well as a superb tonal balance, power, yadda, yadda.
I have a vinyl rig because I first began buying records while Johnson was president. Frankly I encourage newbies to NOT get into vinyl as I feel it is far, far too expensive for what you get. I have about a dozen recordings in both vinyl and digital and feel there are things about each I like better than the other, but none that makes me want to abandon either format.
Just because there might be electrical noise on the wire is pretty much irrelevant to the transmission of a digital signal. To quote another technically astute audiophile,
"USB has error detection (in the form of a cyclic redundancy check, CRC, on each packet). It has no error correction as such - however, any packets with a bad CRC can be re-sent - there's plenty of time at audio rates! Yes, any cable bad enough to introduce multiple CRC errors won't work and should be binned."
Thus the data that is received by a DAC is precisely the same data regardless of whether the source is a streamer, or a Linux laptop like mine. Noise on the sending end is totally irrelevant. The musical information is 100% contained in the data. Everything audible that you hear is what is created by the DAC.