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If a computers make acoustic noise and this is deemed to affect the sound adversely then it should be moved out of the listening room or replaced with silent equipment. If a computer generates SPDIF then it contains a sample clock and can affect the sound. There is little reason to configure a computer this way, however. If a computer is performing DSP (intentionally or unintentionally) then it definitely affects the sound, and presumably the user can configure this for advantageous use or else disable it.

Apart from the above considerations, the computer is not in the audio signal path and there is no reason why it should affect the sound. If it does so it is only indirectly by creating a noisy electrical environment for the DAC and amplifiers. With good equipment any differences here should be small, minute in fact compare to a slight change in recording technique or a slight adjustment of speaker position. There are people who worry about these minute changes, but IMO most of them suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder.

Tony Lauck

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


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