Alright, that might be the case, which would also explain why analog and digital sound the same to me, but different to the streamer path. I always thought this processing is applied only on analog, as it’s somehow part of the internal DAC and since analog and digital sound the same, I thought this does not really make any impact or difference.
But what does that mean? That if I go for some $4-5K streamer transport, which was the maximum I was thinking to pay for such a component instead of my Allo setup, that there shouldn’t be any significant difference in sound quality?