Point of higher priced streamer?

@thyname — don’t you understand audio is not about music or ‘what you hear’. It’s all about measurements and double blind tests, paper tigers, and graph gremlins. The actual act of listening is not only unnecessary, it’s highly overrated. 

Yeah... bottom feeders like our friend here, who has zero confidence on his ears, and gets a hard on every time he stares at a graph other people post online 🙄

Professing substantial differences in SQ based on, wow I heard veils lifted,  only applies to one person who claims to have heard something without any meaningful attempt to control biases. Now pray tell what does that actually  contribute to understanding if one streamer performs better than another?  Why would I base a purchase decision on hyperbole and cost? Listening with your ears is necessary, listening with your eyes and preconceptions about if it costs more it must be better is unnecessary. 

Could be none of the above. Unless the two were compared with a controlled blind test it doesn't tell us anything. To me Quboz sounds better than a flash drive connected to the streamer, again unless I did this comparison blind it tells us nothing to further our knowledge.

Please explain exactly what you mean by "controlled blind test" and how one would be able to adequately make such a comparison using a file streamed from Qobuz, versus a file on a USB flash memory.

Unless you can prove the files are identical using a checksum hash such a comparison is actually impossible. I don't think you've thought this through much.