excuse me for off topic
if you think "bits are bits" please use a cheap PC CD-Rom ($50) as transport and play music on the cheap PC hard drive.
You can measure/log the output bits from the usb output of the PC and compare it to the $150K wadax server usb output.
Both $500 cheap PC and a $150k wadax will give you equal bits with no error , both are bit-perfect and you can not find any difference between the two.
The question is why the sound of the Wadax server is so much better than a cheap PC?
I do not know why "file to CD" conversion and "CD ripping" will degrade the sound but I know there are many questions there (in audio) that you can not find a simple answer for them.