Recent content by Charlie Hustle

if you're not optimizing your computer for music, then yes, you are wasting your money on the dac. Your whole premise that all digital sources are equal is your first and fatal mistake. It made your conclusions predictable.

Everything sounded the same on my pc setup as well. Itunes was indistinguishable from jriver, all dacs sounded identical, hi-rez shmi-rez. Came across this software called Fidelizer and it completely changed my opinions about jriver and dacs. hi-rez - still mostly unimpressed.