Esoteric owners, USB or S/PDIF?


USB or S/PDIF
Assuming that equal quality cables are used, which provides the best SQ when connecting a streamer to my K-05XD?
I’m leaning towards an Aurender N200 or N20.

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Hi,

I have connected my streamer (Esoteric N03T) to my Esoteric dac by USB.  I gather this has the advantage that using an asynchronous USB connection means the clock of the dac governs the data flow which supposedly eliminates jitter.  Subjectively speaking: it sounds great to me.  I haven't compared with another connection though.

Maybe less important: according to the Esoteric manual, USB connection allows for higher bit rates.  I haven't as yet come across 32 bit music on Qobuz.