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Best way to A/B two different streamers

I just purchased a new dedicated streamer after streaming tidal from my computer. I'm using USB to stream from both. Has anyone ever tried using a USB A/B box to switch between streamers to evaluate the differences? I know it would possibly degrade the signal but I'm only looking to hear the differences. My other problem is I only have one high quality USB cable but could use 2 cheaper cables just to hear differences. My DAC and streamer are both in a rack where the cable is hard to reach.

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nevada_matt
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The dac only has one usb input?

Does it have an optical in?

You could do one usb, one optical, play nothing higher than 24/192 (depending on the optical out lf the streamer and in of the dac… maybe have to limit to 24/96)

 

then just switch between usb and optical on the dac?

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