Perceived SQ differences playing local files

[bodiebill]

I do admit that the difference between (4) and (5) above could be placebo. Of the other differences I was pretty sure, for what it is worth.

On a philosophical note, let us accept that audiophile truth does not exist and that audiophiles per definition are comparing their placebo effects in this hobby where we are all aiming for the optimal goose bumps producing illusion.