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
Thank you all for your input. So the rest of my system compromises of: Audio Mirror Tubadour 3, Belles Aria Signature Integrated, Audio Physic Tempo Plus. All power cables by Triode Wire labs. Digital and IC are Wywires Platinum. Silversmith Audio Fidelium speak cables. Puritan 156 power conditioner. Going fiber? Relatively Inexpensive and with Amazon's easy return policy no reason not to try. Just so I understand, I still use my Supra Cat cable to connect from my eero mesh into to 10Gtek converter. From there I connect the optical cable to another 10gtek converter and finally another Cat Cable to my Lumin streamer?

Yep, you have correct connection protocol. If going fiber route do linear power supply for at least last FMC, lps for both best. Also may want to consider moving to Sonore OpticalModule and OpticalRendu vs the generic, well worth the premium. I'd estimate your setup will expose the improvement.

Get a ViaBlue EP7 B4 Christmas. Triton Cables is closing - liquidation sale.

Silver plated. I upgraded and sold my Supra.

 

@emil 

The cat cable is the last thing to change. Why not try a Linear power supply? The power supply on the U1 and the U2 is the weakest link. Check out SBooster.

 

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.