Ethernet opinions
Hello everyone, I finally got my system setup. I had a few setbacks the past few months. My mom had lung cancer and passed away a month ago. It has been a journey getting my system set up which is part of the fun. I am running Pass Labs XP-12, pass 250.8, and Bricasti M3. My original plan was to run the Bricasti with a EERO mesh network since the modem is on the opposite end of the listening space. Needless to say the EERO mesh would not work and Roon could not see my M3. I was on the phone with Bricasti trouble shooting the issue. I removed my M3 from the system and double checked everything with it hard wired to the modem which worked. I was told I could really use any Ethernet for the most part as long as it’s cat 5 or 6. Well, I returned the EERO and got a 25 foot Ethernet cable from Best Buy for 10 dollars. The sound is much better then I was guessing running a 10 dollar cable, for me it’s deff a temp fix. Especially since I bought two audio quest vodka cables. I am using one of them now connecting the room nucleus to the modem at the moment. I have read a bit about blue Jean cables which seem to hold spec. I don’t see me buying a longer Audio quest vodka cable given the cost. In some ways I feel like I spent more then I should have on the Vodka cables at this point. Opinions please ?
@cleeds Ok, now I see the problem. You never read what I posted. They call it a streaming service, yes, that is a fact. Also a fact, they actually don't have a continuous stream, your streamer/player download each song individually then play it back. That is how the technology works. Why do they do this? Quality. Lots of things can happen on the internet during a 4 minute song, very little happens on a local network during 4 minutes. |
We've made progress if you now accept that streaming and downloading are two different things. If, however, you are going to continue with your word salad and conflate streaming, caching, and downloading as all being the same thing, then you are just being argumentative. The facts here are clear, and you've acknowledged them. Let's move on. |
@clearthink factually flawed, how so? let’s dig into the technology and show me why it is factually flawed. Let me start you off: Jitter - since it's an actual download, jitter means nothing. Noise from RFI/EMI - Somehow analogue noise is imbedded into the download? Nope, not how it works, the download would fail all sorts of checks, including DRM. Clock - again, it's a download so it doesn't mean anything, and even it wasn't, all switches has clocks tuned to the speed of the network interface cards.
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@cleeds you are confusing the name of the service with how the technology works. Nothing has changed. You can name it whatever you want, but that doesn’t mean anything for how the technology works. You still download the songs from a technology perspective when you are using a streaming service. Again, why? Because it improves the user experience. |
