I’m afraid that you misunderstood my post. In my setup, there is a short USB cable from the computer to an external drive. The streamer accesses the hard drive through the network over an Ethernet connection. I have an Ethernet connection. So the digital files on the external drive travel into the computer to get to the network. This is the opposite direction from a setup where music on a computer is carried over USB directly to a streamer.
So, if I connect the iFi device to the computer's USB port, the music will pass through it from the hard drive into the computer, instead of the other way around. I'm wondering if the filtering and silencing will be picked up in my setup and give me improved sound quality.
So, if I connect the iFi device to the computer's USB port, the music will pass through it from the hard drive into the computer, instead of the other way around. I'm wondering if the filtering and silencing will be picked up in my setup and give me improved sound quality.