Modem performance and modem selection.


How much does a modem impact sound performance when streaming high resolution music and or video via Ethernet connection?  If you believe the impact is important/noticeable, can you make a recommendation on your favoured modem? Thank you 
jworth

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Comment on Ethernet Cable directionality. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: Are you out of mind?

from AudioQuest page on Ethernet Cable (Diamond),

RJ/E Diamond prepared Cat 7 Ethernet cables use solid 100% Perfect-Surface Silver conductors, which completely eliminate strand interaction, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables, for clearer, more dynamic and involving sound. Superior conductor metals minimize distortion by having fewer grain boundaries and less impurities (such as oxides) at those boundaries. Solid High-Density Polyethylene (PE) insulation helps maintain critical signal-pair geometry. Of course all AudioQuest Ethernet cables honor the directionality inherent in all analog and digital audio cables; arrows on the jackets indicate the direction (from source to destination) for the best audio performance.
Streaming is not a very good alternative to CD transports, sound wise, I understand. 
Sadly, by the time the signal reaches the DAC it’s too late. The damage has already been done. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty 🥚 together again. 😥