In any serious listening session I may listen to an hour’s worth of beautiful, new (to me) classical music with one or two favorites thrown in all courtesy of the Swiss (Swiss Radio Classic)
Their radio is a lot like their public transport and health system. Runs like clockwork, to a very high standard, with music as beautiful as their country. (Swiss)
This just caught my eye and is a comment I appreciate. Yes, I have a lot of the usual high quality musical sources (CD's, LP's). But well over 75% of the music I listen to during the day is Radio Swiss Classical (morning) and Radio Swiss Jazz (afternoon). Superb curating and high quality throughout. Rado Swiss Jazz is particularly impressive because it plays a lot of music by excellent European musicians that nobody has ever heard of who I would not otherwise ever get to hear.
Hi love both stations as well, but what I find especially with Radio Swiss Classical is that if you listen to it enough, you start hearing a bit of repetition in the music.
The problem with Ethernet is not packet loss. It’s jitter. The jitter changes as the packet goes through each device. The end result for text data is none, but for music the jitter is audible.
Jitter I imagine is why someone would make "a fancy cable" but its not needed in certain applications and sometimes jitter is not caused by the cabling.
Jitter I imagine is why someone would make "a fancy cable" but its not needed in certain applications and sometimes jitter is not caused by the cabling.
The problem with ethernet audio seems to be related to conducted electrical noise into the downstream DAC. People, myself included, are making huge gains with better designed switches, better power supplies and, crucially, fibre ethernet connections which completely isolate the network electrical noise from the downstream audio equipment. The differences in sound quality, once you address the issues, are not at all subtle.
Pfft.... if that's the case, use a wireless connection.
No chance of electrical noise.
BTW, I got 1600 feet of Cat56E at home, with three managed switches in the back bone with spanning tree configured. Each room has at least one drop and an unmanaged switch. We also have three wireless access points throughout the house in a home made roaming configuration. With 120TB of NAS storage.
I don't hear any difference in sound made by ethernet. None.
IMHO, and experience, you just need to use a proper grounding schema throughout the house. Many people have crappy power and blame it on their components. We rebuilt our house from scratch and I paid close attention to the wiring and grounding. To the point where we have dedicated home runs for the main audio and video systems and the computer network and file servers.
My DACs? RME ADI-2 FS AD/DAC, Burson Play with Burson op amps, Nitsch Peitus Maximus with Multibit, Topping D90LE and a collection of Nuforce and Topping portable units.
