WiFi Streaming Versus An Ethernet Cable Connection

Forget Cin Dyment for a moment….

And forget bandwidth for a moment as well…

And certainly disregard whatever Freddy says….

What is wi-fi? An “antenna “ so to speak, converting the internet signal for your streamer. Very simplistic, I know. You really think there is no audible noise from the conversion process bringing internet streaming to your streamer? Think. Antennae. In other words, look it up. Google it. No electrical noise ?

Obviously as @audphile1 says:

Before spending money on all these tweaks, invest in better quality components. No switch or ethernet tweak will bridge the gap between a low/midfi component and a high end one. No matter how many of these tweaks you throw at it. You just can’t polish the turd.

So yeah, there is that. Don’t expect magic.

It’s seems rather clueless to me that certain folks wouldn’t consider the Bryston BDP 3 to be a quality streamer. Every review I’ve seen states that it is an audiophile quality streamer and is held in the highest regard. Anyway, there have been times where Qobuz streaming was excellent but my experiences have been inconsistent. Anyway, my local files sound more refined with less noise than most streaming titles. If I were to spend up to $600.00, I would consider the Ether Regen from Uptone Audio but for now, I am considering a better router. I have a Terdak LPS and the fuse reads 12 Volts 2 Amps so I will need to buy a router that is compatible with the Teradak and then an audiophile ethernet cable.

@goofyfoot Bryston BDP3 is not a bad streamer at all. It does have two things going against it though - 1) it’s raspberry pi based and 2) moose is not a great interface. As I suggested in my earlier posts, start with upgrading the ethernet cable. The LinkUp cable from Amazon is a good performer and will improve the sonics. Start with that, it’s the cheapest option. You will need a good cable anyway so this isn’t a throw away. 

@x5owner1 Hans is a crackpot who regurgitates stuff he read on the Internet as gospel without any comprehension, in this case the many times debunked “white paper” from John Swenson.

a switch does not reclock anything. It is not what it does. And if you knew anything about Ethernet and TCP/IP, you would know it is impossible. 
 

below is a description what a switch uses it’s clock for.

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No benefits. Network jitter has no impact either as the data is buffered ahead of DAC processing in any case.

The clock in the switch does nothing for the timing of audio. It's there to periodically synchronise the bit-timing for data transmission/reception. Contrary to marketing claims of some "audiophile" switches and routers, clocks in networking devices do not synchronise with other clocks in other devices - timing signals are encoded within the data stream; it's an asynchronous transmission medium.

Bit times for Gigabit Ethernet are at 1 nanosecond. Standard clocks on enterprise Gigabit Ethernet switches run at about 125MHz in most cases which equated to a cycle of about 7.5ns; completely logical when you realise that the clock does not need to resync the bitrate on every bit.”

https://www.stereonet.com/forums/topic/535802-something-about-reclock-dejitter-which-i-couldnt-comprehend/
 

@x5owner1 here is a factual, and somewhat humorous real review of the Aqvox:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMFQ3YvR3Eo