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Another upgrade to purify the signal would be a dedicated streamer with USB out to get away from laptop signal noise. Plug the aptX dongle into the output and you might (might) get an improvement.
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I've avoided streamers so far; quite happy with nas -> laptop -> DAC -> amp for general purposes.
The headphones thing does provide a slightly different challenge as the laptop is the "source" in a way that it isn't in the loudspeaker output chain.
I've just ordered one of those aptx HD usb dongles so we'll see where that takes things.
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No noise in the digital signal whatever the source (unless you’re talking about jitter, which is of negligible effect compared to Bluetooth compression and wireless signal issues).
ChasnotRobert
Dramatic_Hammer
Great. No need to worry about upstream DAC then.
As you say, just get one of those aptx dongles and that should be as good as it's going to be on Bluetooth.