LPSU foe modem and router - how important?

@mgrif104 - obviously, you have no idea now network protocols work. All that EMF is irrelevant. Protocols are designed for nuclear war. Noise? Packets will get retransmitted. There 1000x more bandwidth on the Net over that meager audio stream. Besides, there is no ’stream’. Data is sliced into packets and transmitted through multiple nodes out of order. Packets contain verification data, like CRC sums. Corruption recovery is part of the protocol. There is no arbitration on the network. If there were lost bits you would not be able to use NAS, external drives or print over WiFi. Or your SO watching Netflix in the next room would affect sound quality.

Funniest part is that people discuss cables, but never even touch subject like Linux builds, services, RAM type, CPU type and so on. Which actually is where signal processing happens. Why? They know ’cables’ from the past and ’noise’ but have zero knowledge what actually the streamer does.

I am open to explanations on how would gold-plated Ethernet cable affect sound. Just spare me of the ’noise’ thing. Sure, if you use coax SPDIF from streamer to DAC, quality of transmitter matters. USB? No.

@fastfreight - and how exactly audio bits are different from Word document?

"and how exactly audio bits are different from Word document?" if you do not know it by now, you never will

Welp Mikhailmark - you missed pretty much everything about my post. FWIW - I’m personally skeptical a LPS on a modem or router will make a difference, but I guess I need to repeat/clarify a few things.

1) Nobody is suggesting a change in the data quality, quantity or timing. 

2) So Ethernet transmission is designed for nuclear war. Let us all hope that robustness is never needed. Not relevant to the discussion. See point 1.

3) How well you understand network protocols is actually interfering with your ability to think critically and ask “what don’t I know?”

4) I’m skeptical, but don’t have experience so I don’t know. You don’t have experience yet are speaking in absolutes.

5) I’m not saying you’re wrong. I’m saying you don’t know. What you’re asserting as fact is actually just speculation.

Chill.

Maybe try it out of exasperation and tell us what you found out. I’ll happily accept you heard no difference and why you think you didn’t hear a difference if that’s your experience.