Yes that is what you say......

In a relatively recent past you also said
Originally Posted by hecd2
In either case, I still fail to see why Sooloos feeding asynchronous data packets into 808.3/861 will be better sonically than some other digital source feeding synchronous data via SPDIF into 808.3/861.

However the ultimate logical conclusion of this way of thinking is that you can have any old digital tat feeding your 7200s - provided it's bit accurate and the jitter doesn't overflow the 7200 FIFO buffers, cheap jittery tat into 7200s will sound the same as an 808.3.

which after you actually compared your 808.3 spinning a disc to an SB SPDIF into an 808.3 became the following observations

Originally Posted by hecd2
However, I had always intended to do an A/B when my kit arrived and I've just started to do that - and early indications are, against my expectations, that I can hear a significant difference between the two set-ups.

The spinner has more transparent bass, firmer imaging, clearer vocals and possibly better transient response. The difference isn't huge (ie I might not notice it except in an A/B) but I think it's there (especially since my initial bias was against hearing a difference). My plan is to do significantly more listening to confirm this initial finding and to post the results here when I'm sure.

Anyway, assuming that what I'm hearing so far is real, then anything that will bring the SB closer to the spinner will be great
Keeping an open mind about the possible things that can affect music replay can be a good thing..........others have found a difference using Server Side Decoding...........tell them they are hearing things

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