"Jitter is no longer an issue with most modern DAC’s or streamers that now has internal clocks to combat jitter."
This is totally incorrect as virtually any DAC will provide better SQ if it is fed a cleaner digital signal.
There are many fine renderers or digital bridges that will aid in providing a better digital stream to the DAC than the one coming out of a PC, for example. Some of them terminate with a s/pdif, some with USB and others with I2S. Users have found quality sound with each of these types. The price ranges for these are quite large. Some of the highest value devices use s/pdif as output.
My DAC will accept an I2S input and, theoretically, it should be best. But I did some research on the issue to find, to my satisfaction, that any such device at a reasonable price did not perform as well as the unit I finally ended up with that has a USB output.
This is totally incorrect as virtually any DAC will provide better SQ if it is fed a cleaner digital signal.
There are many fine renderers or digital bridges that will aid in providing a better digital stream to the DAC than the one coming out of a PC, for example. Some of them terminate with a s/pdif, some with USB and others with I2S. Users have found quality sound with each of these types. The price ranges for these are quite large. Some of the highest value devices use s/pdif as output.
My DAC will accept an I2S input and, theoretically, it should be best. But I did some research on the issue to find, to my satisfaction, that any such device at a reasonable price did not perform as well as the unit I finally ended up with that has a USB output.