03-25-2016, 11:31 PM
It's not 100% impossible for the buffer size to make an audible difference. We think of digital streams as being these pristine things that map perfectly to their analog equivalents, but that's not really the case. There are multiple reasonable ways to convert a digital stream into analog, each of which colors the sound in a slightly different way. Add in USB and that's a whole new set of issues.
That said, I can't really come up with a particularly compelling theory as to why you'd hear a difference on the Dacmagic, which is a high quality asynchronously clocked codec.
That said, I can't really come up with a particularly compelling theory as to why you'd hear a difference on the Dacmagic, which is a high quality asynchronously clocked codec.