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Then the transcoding takes up very little system resources, impressive!

Here's a little piece from one of Naim's white papers on the subject of upstream transcoding which may go some way to explaining the benefit to sound quality in utilising transcoding in Minimstreamer.

In the White Paper on the NDX from 2010, Naim writes:
"Naim’s UPnP™ servers deliver the uncompressed audio data ripped from CD using the Naim ripping engine to ensure the best quality reproduction. Uncompressed audio data will always give better results than compressed. Even lossless compression may not reproduce audio with equivalent quality to the uncompressed original as the processing required to uncompress the data increases the computational load. This raises the power supply noise floor, which detracts from the sound quality."

I suppose this applies to all their streamers and perhaps to other manufacturers too.