This is absolutely true, but it’s also important that we keep in mind that the effect on SQ is stuff like skips, dropouts, etc. It is not “soundstage” or anything like that. I’m not saying soundstage isn’t a noticeable part of SQ (it is) but it’s fully and completely encoded in the digital information reaching the DAC. Affecting the digital signal layer has no effect unless the signal degradation also affects the higher, information, layer. This is unlike analog, where the information is the signal.