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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

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yyzsantabarbara
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@verdantaudio Did you ever get the things you needed to get fibre optic to work on the Linn DAC you had? I provided you some links on Amazon and maybe Sonore for the required components.

BTW - I think I got the PlayBack Design STREAM-IF streamer from you. I only heard it on SPDIF, but that thing was as good as the Lumin X1 and Sonore OpticalRendu running on fibre (very surprising). I never heard the fibre based Plink on that streamer since I decided not to get a PBD DAC. I sold the STREAM-IF.

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