@charles1dad great point. I have experienced with my Berkerley DAC alpha at the beginning too. However, it’s turn out that I used the low quality USB and didn’t stream lossless music through any audiophile player software.
The dealer recomended me to use Mac Mini with Audirvana Plus software, and lent me a Light Harmonic USB cable to try out. Things turned out completely different as my old setup. It was surprised at extremely quiet background, soundstage depth, and imaging precision clearly, and very natural overall. It also produced an amazingly pure sound as listening to live performance which could see the musicians position, no bright or harshness of digital in a very musical sound. My system would have never been like that before though I tried to upgrade all cables around many times.
Maybe I was lucky than others on DAC but I have learned that be patience with this new technology involved with computer since I'm not a tech-savvy. However, you can get to the point if in the right direction for the digital solution setup.
