If you want to understand a TON of information about digital streaming that few people understand, check out The Hans Beekhuyzen channel on YouTube.
Here's a link to the MicroRendu review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRi9utNBl4
Hans is extremely objective and explains in plain English why you may or may not get any improvement from a new piece of digital gear.
Whether you'll benefit from optical depends mainly on how well your other components - server, streamer, dac - clean up the incoming signal. The best ones do it for you.
Here's a link to the MicroRendu review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRi9utNBl4
Hans is extremely objective and explains in plain English why you may or may not get any improvement from a new piece of digital gear.
Whether you'll benefit from optical depends mainly on how well your other components - server, streamer, dac - clean up the incoming signal. The best ones do it for you.