Herman's system

[Hermanh]

Did you feel USB is superior to ethernet? I always had the impression ethernet is superior because TCP/IP protocol is 2-way and validates data sent, vs. USB is 1-direction, plus the ability to passing noise from computer to devialet. Would love to learn from your experiences.

I had USB dacs before and found ifi or aqvox to isolate the power supply for the USB makes things quieter. Just my 2 cents.B

In a basic system ethernet will sound better than a standard USB connetion.
In my system the USB connection is by far superior over the ethernet connection.
My audio PC is highly modded and so is it's USB connection.
The Paul Pang USB card is a modded USB 3 card that, in my basic understanding, among other things, reclocks the data to reduce jitter. In my system the USB card has a separate linear PSU (Teddy Pardo, 5V ) that is conncted to the USB card with an audio grade molex cable that improves things again.

The improvements over the basic ethernet connection are a wider and deeper soundstage, blacker background, more detail, more “air” around the instruments and a better life-like and spine tingling experience.