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Sound quality differences in streamers

Can there be sonic differences between moderate and high priced streamers when used for streaming only. I will not use or engage an onboard DAC or any other feature, just stream from Tidal or Amazon to DAC. If the unit is just transferring zeros and ones to a DAC can there be differences in say a $300 WiiM and a $3000 dSC streamer? Thanks

kckrs

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kofibaffour
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I guess I will be the party pooper. You're using it as a streamer, so the heavy lifting is done by your standalone DAC @kckrs 

 

All you need is a streamer with a user friendly software system if it has one and one with good processing power is all and thankfully you can get one for pretty reasonable money and then connect you your DAC via any of the digital inputs and you're good to go.

 

Overthinking it and using anecdotes of people here and trusting it (including me) iṣan exercise in spiralling.

 

So yes connect the Wiim Ultra which has the best processing power of the Wiims and USB input on your DAC and you're all good

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