Wired vs. Wireless

A wired connection will always sound more dynamic and fuller vs wireless, IMHO. A wired connection pretty much immune to RFI/EMI and other noises as long as you’re using cables with proper shielding. In high quality audio systems, front end along with everything else matters.

Others here may disagree but WiFi is prone to transmit ‘noise’ present in your environment along with audio signal. Now if you’re using a subpar streamer /DAC then should you really care? In those systems convenience is more of a preference over audio purity.

latik, thanks. That was my suspicion, but thought I should seek out community experience before dropping a pile of $$$ on Aurender or such.

WiFi might produce electrical ambient noise, that you most likely already have if you use wireless router, but wired connection can inject electrical noise directly into the system.  Also WiFi transmits only data and as such it cannot have lower or higher dynamics or amount of noise.  Important is what happens to this data later.  Data is most likely compressed, so it has to be decompressed and timing has to be attached.  In case of my Airport Express it comes out as 16 bit S/Pdif stream at 2x44.1kHz word rate.  DAC converter  can adjust/follow it for D/A conversion or just ignore it, rescan data and output it at new unrelated clock (upsample), as my Benchmark DAC3 does.