Fiber Optic Cable

I use fiber ethernet between my server and DAC.

It runs through a wall near the power cable to the light switch, along the floor past the power cables for the AVR, around to the front of the room and along the power cables for my monoblocks, DAC, preamp etc.

 

Having used both very high quality ethernet in CATs 5, 6, 7 and fiber, with the only difference being 15m of cable, the perceived quality difference is astounding.

yes, that is "in absolute terms."

 

Even WiFi had better sound quality than ethernet in my situation

 

@traubr 

My favourites so far are Slow Horses, Silo and Severance. Next up Ted Lasso and Masters of the Air.

Slow Horses is great. Foundation is interesting, if a bit, or a lot, askew from the books.

We have Spectrum and are getting 600mps d/l and 25mps upload. For me that’s plenty fast. Don’t have Apple TV anymore for the same reason as Erik, but do have Amazon Prime.  I can’t really tell anymore about picture quality because my TV is nearing ten years old and wasn’t the top of the line when I bought it.

I upgraded to a local fiber outfit and ditched my Comcast cable. Besides being much faster (especially upstream) my ping and jitter were reduced to a fraction of what they were with Xfinity.