Glenn, if you get the Bifrost and I would recommend the multibit upgrade, you are good to go with USB out from the laptop. Bifrost and other higher up DACs from Schiit have got a good pretty good handle on USB follies.
"Bifrost uses a sophisticated master clock management system to deliver bit-perfect data to the DAC—unlike many DACs that use asynchronous sample rate conversion (ASRC), which destroys the original samples. And, our Gen 5 USB features full galvanic isolation via transformers, self-power for low-noise and reclocking sections, and high-quality local clocks for both 44.1 and 48k multiples. (And, if you don’t understand the technobabble, here’s the bottom line: it works and sounds great.)"
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