Audiophiles hifi appreciation thread old and new

John sounds like an idiot tbh. USB is a packetised, asynchronous digital signal - comparing it to things in the physical/analog/acoustic realm is not a serious angle. I’d be disinclined to pay any attention to anything he writes after that!

With regard to your previous points, dropped packets are possible, USB timing errors (that cause an effect) are less possible but both are not that likely with undamaged equipment. There’s also nothing to say that these errors only affect the subtleties of a track - you’re just as likely to get a massive pop or underwater garble as lose the detail from a reverb tail...