Ok, so I was at my friend's house today and he showed me his father's b&w 805s. I was impressed by the sound considering I have/bought a used pair of dm601s for a very good price. Nonetheless, we got into an argument talking about the squeezebox 3 and transporter. I was presenting Mike Andersen's viewpoint that the music sounds better if not as good from sb3 w/ an outboard dac or even better from a transporter than a high end cd player like his father has. After giving him a list of reasons why the sound should be the same if not better, he posed an interesting question. He stated that no matter how silent you make a pc, even its presence would adversely affect sound quality of one's music if the pc is located in a room with the squeezebox 3 where the main speaker system sits. I thought this was far fetched and untrue. However, I countered his argument by saying that you could buy a transporter, a wireless router, and a wireless server and the price/performance ratio would still be better than a high end cd player. Furthermore you would get the convenience of having all your music on demand and available easily and able to be backed up by a wireless server. He said my claims were rubbish.

I want to prove him wrong. Who do you guys think is right?