USB and Coaxial at the same time?

If you have native dsd turned off in the aurender advanced settings I think you should be fine. What makes you think the coax could sound better just curious…

When I compared USB to coax on my N200 I was running one interface at a time and was taking it slow evaluating sonic quantities of each listening to complete songs or even more than one song with each.
I don’t recommend switching back and forth to quickly A/B. That is a waste of time and effort - you won’t have enough to go on. 

It might smooth it out. 

@fthompson251 I don’t think there’s a problem having both cables connected and I agree with your assessment of coax sound vs USB. Not familiar with Denafrips but  is there a mode or a filter option  available that would result in a slightly warmer sound? Does OS vs NOS change anything sonically to help smooth out bad recordings?

Cool. Yeah the 70s rock wasn’t recorded to be played thru an accurate hi fi system 

@rvpiano interesting that you prefer coax. Thought you liked that shunyata usb cable

@rvpiano USB cut out the highs? That’s strange. I only had DH Labs coax and I actually got more vibrant sound from USB. Even stock USB cable sounded more open. Could be that Shunyata cable no bueno. 

 

richardbrand

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02-09-2025 at 03:43pm 

@erik_squires

USB of course is the only choice for very high resolution formats and DSD

You are really ruling out HDMI?  Really?
 

You are trolling again. We’re taking about Aurender N200 streamer here. Coax and USB. No HDMI. Don’t derail the conversation. It’s rude. 

@rvpiano if it sounds good just enjoy it