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Actually, I agree that the optical input is far superior than the usb input. The optical input is cleaner, transparent, and more linear.
How can it be? Both optical and USB are digital inputs to the DAC. they are feeding a digital signal (a series of 1's and 0's) to the DAC where they are decoded to analog. They go through same DAC and same amp. So how can one sound different? Did you volume match when comparing?