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Just upgraded to Fiber Optic feed ( 500Mbps) from Spectrum (250 Mbps) OMG

I just wanted to let everyone know, I just got fiber optic service into our neighborhood. The glass fiber feed into my home instead of Spectrum’s copper feed (for the last twenty years) is like night and day thru my Main stereo system. The sound quality is like a veil has been removed from my LUMIN T2 streamer/dac. 
 

I have paid $100 per month for 300 Mbps with Spectrum - throttled back constantly to 200 Mbps. My new provider in SC - Upcountry Fiber costs $60 per month for 500 Mbps -  currently getting 590Mbps.

God Bless competition!!

there is even visual improvements on my 4 K Sony TVs.

if you have access to hard wired glass fiber - grab it!

Happy Listening

 

 

 

tom8999

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tom8999 OP
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Everyone - just to be clear - I am a retired Chemist, not an EE. The company supplied their own router - it is a Calix GigaPoint GP1101X. I am hard wired via Ethernet from their router to both streamer/dacs (LUMIN T2 and LUMIN D2). I have two big stereo systems. I run all 3 4k Sony TVs wirelessly via my EERO system which is also hard wired via Ethernet to the new Router. 

I hope this helps.

Thanks to sfgak for his much more detailed response

tom8999 OP
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H CE 1 - Thank you for your reply. As I previously said - I am not an EE, but the improvement in my sound quality is obvious to my ears and multiple friends that have heard my system since I upgraded to the Calix modem/router. My system is more than capable of revealing this improvement (hard wired via Ethernet to LUMIN  T2 - Krell K 300i - Maggy 1.6qr modified by Peter Gunn and The Swarm subwoofer system)
 

As jji666 said - I do not understand the mechanism for the better sound quality - I always thought ‘bits are bits’. Just getting them faster should not improve the sound. This is not the case however - my Jazz vocals are better (Carly Simon on Torch, Dianna Krall on any album), I get better instrument separation, cleaner horns, better and tighter bass, the sound stage is larger.

I am ‘over the Moon’ happy with these improvements. The changes are real.

Happy Listening

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