Does the endpoint matter if you are just plugging it into a DAC?

[Beauty-and-the-bit]

Hi Michael,

I see that you have a Berkeley Audio Design Alpha USB, just like me.

I’ve had a ton of trouble making streamers work with this device. If you have any experience on how to make this work, I’d love to hear it.

I asked about it in this post.

Roon and Berkeley Audio Design Alpha USB?

Hi, These are my first weeks in audio streaming, and they’ve been dreadful. I’ve spent many full days struggling to get any kind of audio out of three dedicated music streamers. (Two times Musical Fidelity MX-Stream and one Volumio Rivo.) The number of bugs I’ve encountered during the past month has far superseded the sum of bugs during my previous 30 years as an audiophile. It could be some bizarre coincidence that all three units are defective, but more likely, there’s something about trying…

Thank you