Adding a high end DAC to Nucleus, is this all I need for a great setup?

Hans B’s video is nothing but FUD.

After (correctly) explaining how bits can get flipped, he briefly mentions error-correction (which will seamlessly correct the occasional bit-flip, should one occur) and then dismisses it with a nonsensical statement about how everything is happening so fast in a digital audio signal that error-correction can’t keep up.

(The above is so nonsensical that I still can’t believe any halfway-educated person said it.)

If your equipment (electronics, cables, etc) is so shoddy that the rate of bit flips is too high for error-correction to function, then the effect is not subtle at all.

You’ll hear pops, clicks, or total signal dropout, not some muddiness in the bass or a shrunken soundstage or any of the rest of the malarky that HB asserts could follow from errors in the digital signal.

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