Ethernet and USB cables

It‘s not just the quality of cables, it is also majorly their length. This applies particularly to USB where RFI/EMI incursion is a major problem. For what it‘s worth, I had major benefits from using a short (25cm) Intona Reference cable between server and dac and a short Meicord Ethernet cable between filter and streamer.

@clearthinker,

for the umptiest time: it isn’t the errors in bit transmission but rather spurious EMI/RFI or ground level noise travelling alongside the bits and messing up the d/a conversion that good cables can address. 

@moto_man

my I suggest you insert a switch before your streamer or even better an Etherregen. ..and use a short cat8 cable to connect the two. 40ft between router and streamer is only workeable if you go optical, which alas has its own issues in the converters. If you want to go overboard, try an Innuos Phoenix Ethernet which reclocks the signal. ARGUABLY THIS APPLIES EVEN MORE FOR THE CONNECTION BETWEEN STREAMER AND DAC