But are there audible shortcomings that I'm going to hear in my systems? Doing a comparison is obviously very hard. And the audibility would certainly depend on the system and source. I'd be amazed if it were audible on a mid-level system streaming Spotify. But playing through a truly high end DAC into a very resolving system? Well, maybe. OTOH, maybe the Node 2i isn't resolving enough to tell the difference in >>any<< system anyway.And that was more the point I was trying to make tbh.
However as a member above has posted, you maybe able to get into it and then you maybe able to change out the RCA output socket indeed.
Good luck!