Ethernet cable from LAN Switch and playing local files

[ken6217]

Man, I couldn't come up with a Topic name without it being a paragraph. LOL.

 

I have an ethernet cable from my router to my Aqvox AQ-Switch SE. Then ethernet to my NUC, and then USB into the DAC. I can understand hearing different sound quality when I stream Tidal and Qobuz when changing ethernet cables, or plugging the Aqvox from my Hubbell to Furetech outlets. But why would I also hear a difference when playing files from the SSD in my NUC? 

 

When playing local files, the only thing that is traveling via ethernet are my commands telling my NUC what to play via my iPad , but the music goes only travels USB, as opposed to streaming which first travels ethernet before it hits the NUC and DAC.

 

Thanks!

 

 

[ken6217]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments. It’s really amazing how all of these changes affect the whole system. 

[ken6217]

Yep, I did. Amazing. 

[ken6217]

It was fixed to begin with. I was just wondering why local files benefited from fixing ethernet. 
 

My setup is Ethernet cable into my AQVOX SE switch, and then short Ethernet cable into an EMO EN-70E isolater into a SOtM dCBL-CAT7 Ethernet cable with filter into my NUC running Euphony software. 
 

Then USB from the NUC into Empirical Audio Offramp 5 USB/SPDIF converter into Metrum Pavane DAC via AES/EBU cable.