The difference between Qoboz stream vs purchased songs

@gkelly

Your post confuses me. You state that you are frugal, but seem to be interested in spending more money should purchase improve the sound vs streaming. A good place to start is for you to post (on your profile) your full system down to all cabling. You might then state a budget and ask where it best be spent to improve the sound.

@fredrik222 

Like Juan from Bliss Hifi, I’ve heard differences in the quality of the presentation that has me shrugging my shoulders.  The first ‘what the…” moment was when I totally upgraded the power feeding my system.  The second was when I upgraded the 3’ Ethernet cable from the wall to my streamer.  Both of these transformed my system with the Ethernet upgrade having the lesser improvement, but I really don’t understand this difference given what you said, and I have no reason to doubt you, that error correction is the same.  It makes sense that it is the same in that Ethernet protocol is set, but it leaves me at a loss as to how changing the Ethernet cable can make a difference.  Either I have a preference for a low bank account balance, or there is something else going on.

@fredrik222

Perhaps, from a technical perspective we want to know if error checking of the transported digital file is different from error checking with live streams.