I’m really enjoying my RS130 with my Warwick Bravura headphones
I’m thinking about my next tweak - I’m comfortable with the quality of my power, coax and ethernet cables so been thinking about a fibre ethernet connection
This afternoon, I’d been listening to two playlists with identical songs in identical order. One is streaming from my Roon server with the RS130 as a Roon endpoint (via copper ethernet/Audioquest Cinnamon ethernet) the other is streaming from a USB stick in the back of the RS130
I can hear/enjoy the improvement of subtle upgrades and I’m also susceptible to the glare/veiling that RF/EMI noise brings and how things sound when it is reduced.
I ran this test to figure out whether I’d see the benefit of a £500 investment in a fibre ethernet connection to the RS130 (thinking Gustard N18 Pro, 2x SFPs, and a single-mode optical cable) - i.e if the local files sound the same as the copper network streamed version, then the network isn’t degrading the quality with noise and my investment might not yield anything
Is my experiment flawed? Is testing USB against a network a flawed test because of noise on the USB stick?
Would welcome some thoughts, particularly if you found a fibre netwrok connection to be beneficial
Thanks!