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RE: Just to confirm - in your experience, the changes (drivers, players etc.) on computer side....

I would move the PC away from the other audio equipment an put it on a separate power circuit or otherwise electrically isolated. I would isolate the DAC from the computer through various devices (such as external USB converter boxes or reclockers) unless the DAC has done this well. This will provide an extra stage of isolation between the noisy computer and the DAC if the DAC lacks this stage internally. Ditto, with providing USB power to the DAC rather than taking it out of the computer.

These are all things for which there are rational explanations of how they work, but of course the people peddling them may have other motives and what you get may not be what you hoped for. There are other approaches as well, which are the equivalent of adding tassels to oriental rugs to "ward off the evil eye". These may also be perceived to work... I have a bunch of oriental rugs and I am not about to start cutting off the tassels to see what happens. Perhaps I am too superstitious. (I have a fair amount of Irish blood.)




Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar


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