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Where should I go from here with my digital front end?

Good morning

My digital front end consists of a recently purchased  Lumin U2 Mini hard wired with Supra ethernet cable from an Eero mesh unit. Modem and Eero router located on 2nd floor. My listening room is in the basement.

My listening is 100% streaming from Tidal and Quboz with a budget of under $1k

should I:

1) upgrade the supra cable

2) add an Etherregen or Eno filter

3) add an audiophile switch such as the English Electric

4) other

Thanks!

 

emil

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ghdprentice
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What is the rest of your equipment? There is a place to show under your UserID. This gives a much better perspective. Cables are very component and system dependent. Typically one wants to stay in a cost range given your overall component sound quality. But the guidelines are really flexible because of system differences.
 

If your other equipment supports higher quality sound upgrade your streamer. If your other equipment supports it you will get a very significant increase in sound quality by upgrading to a, for instance… recommended, Aurender at the $5K, $10K, and $20K component range.

ghdprentice
6,364 posts
 

Thanks for the info on your system. Looks thoughtfully assembled with some good choices.

I don’t know, you have a pretty good setup. If you have $1K. I would save it and wait until you can invest in a better integrated amp as your next step. In the mean time I would work with your setup, room treatments. Enjoy what you have. Assuming you have a good quality power cord on your amp.

You can get small incremental improvements by fiddling with your network. But there are so many opportunities. All opportunities must be weighed… interconnects, power cables, isolation, set up, components.

 

 

ghdprentice
6,364 posts
 

OP,

 

I look forward to hearing your evaluation.

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