Point of higher priced streamer?

If there is missing data there would be highly audible effects.

How the missing data in spdif flow would affect SG is not clear to me, maybe someone else could open this in more detail.

@audio2design, my point was just that it’s unclear to me how data loss would affect SG. As if streamer misses one datagram containing 5ms of data, it could be a silent point in a track resulting only note playing longer, but it also could be something else which affects the SG more profaundly. This also comes down to how streamer and dac handle these errors. As there is no error correction (as far as I know) between streamer and dac over any connection, it’s impossible to request packet resend from dac point of view. Assuming that these devices are separate boxes. So any error generated before dac could surface in a different way in SG. 

jksec

... it’s unclear to me how data loss would affect SG ... could be something else which affects the SG ... So any error generated before dac could surface in a different way in SG

What is "SG?" How would you know that it's been affected?

@cleeds SG = SQ 😂👍🏻And I don’t know how it’s affected.

Obviously @cleeds --- SG stands for "Sound Guality"