In the early days usb was significantly worse than other digital connections, but that issue was solved years ago. It was mainly due to the asynchronous nature of usb due to the fact that usb sends data in packets. Most DACs now reclining it. My Bryston DAC3 sounds equally great with every input
Streamer output options
In my younger days, I was told so often that spdif was better than usb that it became doctrine. I'm in the market for a 2k$ish streamer and I see many higher end streamers with usb outputs that pass far higher res data than the spdif 192/24 does. My DAC takes either, but not i2s. Are the new implementations of usb now better than spdif?