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?
There is no actual science, just a bunch of different narratives pushed by manufacturers and marketers and propagated by audiophiles.
Some say digital audio transmission is inherently lossy, but it can be verified this is not the case.
Some say it’s about the jitter, but it can be shown that jitter levels are reduced to negligible terms in modern hardware.
Some say it’s about what kind of noise or interference the streamer hardware induces on the system. There may be some truth to this but only under certain circumstances.