Any difference in SQ from USB drive storage to NAS playback?

Have to rename this thread The Seattle Reunion Benefit Show soon......

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Friday Harbour not Friday island.
Doh, thx Greg.

Greg
I am planning on visiting Friday Island later this year.
A meeting with yourself and Tomic would be the icing on the cake indeed!

Media files are identical flac files ripped with same software at same time.
All I did was download them all to USB HDD drive and some to USB flash drive for a comparison.

Can't really tell any difference between the two USB drives but from the nas it sounds slightly preferable to my ears.

Mapman.
Thanks for being open minded!

That also sounds very plausible too.
Could very well explain why to my ears played from the nas has more body and dynamic than from an attached USB HDD or even USB flash drive.

I am always receptive to trying it out but sometimes also interested in just why something would act as it appears to.

Mapman
With all due respect that is your opinion and great that you have shared it but please do not become like some here who assume their opinion is law and gospel and cannot be argued against.

You could well be correct but an open mind never hurt anyone.

This is why I started this thread.
We have plausible reasons both for and against a possible difference in SQ from the two sources but it seems that nobody truly knows definitively.

Now that's even more interesting Tomic.
Unfortunately the N100 is USB 2.0 only or a 4tb flash drive would be the answeri think.

At least I am getting some good explanation to bear out what my ears are telling me.

Interesting Jazzman.
That agrees with my hearing but if it's just 0 and 1,s ( lol) how do we hear a difference?

Bob
I have the Aurender N100 and my understanding is it only caches streaming  music to it's SSD?
It maybe my imagination but I swear music played from the nas sound fuller than from a USB hard drive plugged into back of the n100.