If hooked up to an external DAC and all it does is transporting 1s and 0s digitally, how can that affect Soundstage, how punchy the bass is, etc?
If hooked up to an external DAC and all it does is transporting 1s and 0s digitally, how can that affect Soundstage, how punchy the bass is, etc?
-Power Supply inside the unit
-cheap parts/internal clocking
-the cable going to the Dac
I think there are enough variables that spending more on a good unit is money well spent, it would be the same as a cd player that you connect to a Dac
I also seem to struggle why those things you listed matter to SQ. My limited scientific knowledge tells me that the digital signal either gets there or not, and it’s the analogue pathway where information could be degraded.
One of the factors that never gets talked about is a digital signal is different when transferring a signal for music reproduction…
I’m not a scientist so I can’t go into great detail, but the facts (to me) are: I’ve heard lousy cables,streamers etc…. And I was convinced a digital signal didn’t matter. That is, until I went out and listened to a bunch of different set ups…. Now, I won’t debate the issue, if you think something different than I do, that’s cool… you do you. All I’m doing is giving my 2 cents on the matter….