Streamed or local playback - which has better SQ ?

[chumtoad]

Hi

I have a Daphile based PC into a USB DAC that I use for all my main room playback. FLACs are all stored on a local (USB) HDD and I am happy with the SQ

For convenience and multiroom reasons, however, I'm considering implementing a UPNP server (Asset running on headless Debian linux server) and using Daphile to play back the UPNP stream with Plug Player and Bubble as control points

Same DAC, same hifi, same PC, same everything else

So the question is (and at some point I will get around to actually trying this) is there likely to be any difference in SQ between local and streamed/UPNP based playback if all other aspects of the hardware/software chain are identical throughout?

😕

As always all and any contributions very gratefully received

 

[jplesset]

As long as you're streaming "bit perfect" not "lossy compressed", there should be no difference.

 

[chumtoad]

OK sounds cool thank you