My wife, who doesn’t care a lick at all about the gear I’m running and rarely offers a comment, even when asked, said without a prompt “that sounds better”. Indeed, I spent a lot more upgrading my DAC than my streamer yet I got more sonic improvement from the streamer.
I understand that you likely have more knowledge than I about such things - and I respect that. I also understand the there should not be differences from data loss or from timing errors with a DAC that rejects jitter well. I don’t think those are the culprit - and, from what I gather, neither does anybody else.
What i don’t understand is why you proselytize so regularly on an audiophile forum (where we’re all ostensibly looking for better sound) that because you did not enjoy an improvement in your system, it’s not possible anybody else did either.
Perhaps your digital network is vastly superior to mine such that your noise floor is well below my own, negating any difference. I can accept that. Perhaps your DAC is vastly better than mine over SPDIF (Node only outputs TOSLINK and SPDIF). I can accept that, too. And, it may well be placebo effect causing some of us to experience an improvement. But, there are also reasonable explanations as to why many of us experience an improvement that are other than placebo.
You might notice that I generally suggest to forum participants that they try in their system as I don’t know whether or not they’ll enjoy a benefit. Very, very few things are black and white and I wouldn’t want somebody who enjoys this hobby to be misled by my experience. Or, yours.
I understand that you likely have more knowledge than I about such things - and I respect that. I also understand the there should not be differences from data loss or from timing errors with a DAC that rejects jitter well. I don’t think those are the culprit - and, from what I gather, neither does anybody else.
What i don’t understand is why you proselytize so regularly on an audiophile forum (where we’re all ostensibly looking for better sound) that because you did not enjoy an improvement in your system, it’s not possible anybody else did either.
Perhaps your digital network is vastly superior to mine such that your noise floor is well below my own, negating any difference. I can accept that. Perhaps your DAC is vastly better than mine over SPDIF (Node only outputs TOSLINK and SPDIF). I can accept that, too. And, it may well be placebo effect causing some of us to experience an improvement. But, there are also reasonable explanations as to why many of us experience an improvement that are other than placebo.
You might notice that I generally suggest to forum participants that they try in their system as I don’t know whether or not they’ll enjoy a benefit. Very, very few things are black and white and I wouldn’t want somebody who enjoys this hobby to be misled by my experience. Or, yours.