Mutec MC-3+ USB

[JimSmith]

I have been testing USB and Ethernet on the CI board using my Melco N1A. The connection is direct in both cases using Audioquest diamond usb and diamond Ethernet cables respectively. The clear winner is Ethernet by a fair margin. Knowing that Melco spent considerable effort to make the Ethernet port as the preferred output on the unit it only goes to show that the source clearly still matters. I think Devialet still has to work on the USB input but as things stand it’s clearly an inferior input choice. Using the Mutec MC-3+ USB to go from USB to AES would be a prudent choice.