750$ Intel NUC vs $6000 Aurender N200: I don't hear the difference

@mdalton I don’t misrepresent your point. You have multiple posts here where your opinion is clear. The streamers going into DACs measure the same on the dac output, you throw the measurements card around again with your statement about Auralic streamer measurements using its stock cord. 
Please don’t try and tell me I’m misrepresenting your point of view. Your point of view is rock solid. 

Just an FYI…because you are science oriented, in most cases, with most interfaces, the analog signal is what carries the digital signal over a copper wire for example. It makes digital just as susceptible to EMI and RFI as analog.
Fiber and optical connections are obviously an exception - the light isn’t susceptible to analog noise.  

Have I been drinking? Yes. Tea. And some seltzer before that. 

My grace digital streamer sounds fine to me, see no reason to upgrade or spend a vast amount of money for little to no difference. I stream out of convenience, no hi res for me, not that into it. The Grace sounds remarkably good for a lousy $179, has a nice screen to boot.

@audphile1 

“To learn. Challenge yourself and your perception you have built up over the years by saying it’s all sciences.”

Dude, your words.  But when somebody challenges you, you accuse him (or her) of being “a beginner to this hobby.” Who made you the audiophile police anyway?  I’ve had a system since 1977(ish).  And check out my 4 systems on audiogon - I think I have a right to exist. Sorry.

You’re good at taking things out of context
what I said was…

you are most likely a beginner in this hobby or someone who’s been around for a while but dismissed listening as a critical, viable and valid means of evaluating audio components and cables.