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Streaming music sounds better late at night. Is this just me?

I listen to both analogue and digital. For digital, I stream from Qobuz or Tidal into my Lumin X1 streamer/DAC. I noticed that the sound quality from streaming seems to be better later at night (11 pm e.g.) whereas my analog sounds the same. I am thinking that streaming sounds better late night because public use of the internet is lower at that time. I have Comcast service and use their modem with direct ethernet connection into my Lumin X1. Am I imagining this or do other audiophiles also notice this?

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ghdprentice
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My system tends to sound best late at night ~11PM and the very best on Sunday night. I have noticed this for forty years with different systems, in Arizona and Washington. 

ghdprentice
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You can simply improve power. Direct lines, made of audiophile wire, you can go further on that… I think it was Stereophile last month about complete home power equipment replacement. On the digital end there is an Ethernet regenerated… and / or audiophile router. But like all things you have to balance cost with benefit and where else you could have spent the money.

 

After I reach a new level with my equipment… I occasionally do a small upgrade to see it’s effect… until there isn’t much (really never happened). I added a second direct line for my amp recently… it made a significant improvement. 

ghdprentice
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I am retired… there are no diminution of stress on Sunday nights, and there have never been any mental state factors involved. I typically realize the sound is notably better… then start asking myself why… did I do something to the system… go through a list of stuff, then noice it is Sunday night.

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