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Point of higher priced streamer?

Hello,
Assuming I have separate DAC, and I just want to play songs from iPad by Airplay feature.
In this case, I need a streamer to receive music from my iPad -> DAC.

What’s the point of high price streamer? I’m bit surprised that some streamers are very high priced.
From my understanding, there should be no sound quality difference.
(Streaming reliability and build quality, I can see it but I do not see advantages in terms of sound quality.)

Am I missing something? If so, please share some wisdom.
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Showing 1 response by nevillekapadia

nevillekapadia
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It's quite simple in my mind as I waited really long before I got one.

Generally well made servers sound as good, or better than your decent CD transport in playback.
 
And a good server should make no difference in playback quality if the file is pulled from streaming, or is a CD rip placed in the servers internal SSD, or it's from your NAS drive.

Once you find and hear a server brand like that (and there are a few that I have heard - Grimm Audio and SGM Taiko come to mind) then you will know why these servers are dearer.

I am sure there are lots of other streamers that do well too, that I may have not come across.
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