@nonoise that may be your interpretation, but not true. Correcting people like yourself who blindly posts articles with no understanding doesn’t mean anything to me. But my point is by actually trying to have a discussion around facts, it might help other people not to spend stupid money on things that do not matter. I will never convince you, because how Ethernet works, and the potential actual improvements you can make does not matter to you. But getting someone else to not be another you is a win.
as for @rockrider ’s article. It is very much focused in USB, and also contains factual issues. But more importantly, the article states over and over “your power supply sucks” and ends with, buy our power supply instead.
Some of the factual issues :
Regular RAM is not bit perfect, and you can pay extra for error correcting ram
Noisy power supply does not automatically mean corrupt transfers
I don’t think any higher end streamers uses wall warts or smps, could be wrong, but mine certainly do not
and lastly, more computer resources doesn’t mean better audio quality