I am a proven proponent of cable and power upgrades across-the-board as they certainly make a difference. The better the quality of the system the more it’s impacted, of course. I ran a 20 foot section of supra 8 directly from the router to my streamer/dac, unfortunately I did not have a large perception of improvement over the in wall ethernet cabeling, but the Supra will serve as a good quality cable from the router to the last couple feet where I plan to upgrade to a better patch cord. Probably something in the wireworld or audio quest line. To be determined.
I should add my experience may be biased based on my streamer dac being a Macintosh MB 50 which requires a $15 dongle to use to connect an ethernet cable instead of using Wi-Fi. That could be choking on the Internet signal itself but I’m moving out of the mb50 into a lumin s1, so may see different results.
I should add my experience may be biased based on my streamer dac being a Macintosh MB 50 which requires a $15 dongle to use to connect an ethernet cable instead of using Wi-Fi. That could be choking on the Internet signal itself but I’m moving out of the mb50 into a lumin s1, so may see different results.