Sound quality differences between NAS units

[simoncn]

(20-08-2016 10:02)winxi Wrote:  Sorry, individual observations do not convince me. I wouldn't even be convinced if I heard a subtle difference myself.

In this case, how do you decide about buying equipment? If you are considering a possible change to your system and you audition a new component that you are considering purchasing and you hear an improvement, do you buy the component based on your audition or do you wait until you have found a review containing the results of an oscilloscope test that proves the new component has superior measurements to your current equipment?

If you always wait for the lab test before buying, your approach is consistent. If you would buy some other component (such as a renderer, amplifier or speakers) based only on an audition. I don't understand why you wouldn't do the same for a source component such as a server.

Quote:Do you mean affected by the DAC or affected 'by something else'?

I mean if the DAC receives a different input, it might produce a different output. Remember that the DAC is not receiving "ones and zeros" but an analog electrical signal that is encoded in such as way as to convey digital information.