In Bubble UPNP once foobar has populated itself with material from Minimserve you can actually call up the songs by choosing in Bubble under Library...
I absolutely bow to your superior understanding of audio concepts Eloise but why the difference in how a DAC decodes stuff from a directly connected...
At that level even a PCM conversion should sound very good I'd think. In terms of distribution would this source make a difference on a regular SACD...
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