Sonore Streamers

[Borgen]

Interesting topic... and given that there are several alternatives for ethernet cabling it should be easy and cheap for each of you to test the impact of low vs high quality ethernet cables.
1. Cheap cat5 type unshielded
2. Next step up with outer shielding braid
(make sure that the shield is connected at one end only)
3. Next step up with individual shielding of each conductor
4. Might also be that a high-quality switch at the other end makes a difference

I believe I am at "step 4" and I believe I got more emotions out of the music compared to "step 1", but it may all be placebo. I have also seen several others here saying that a good cat7 cable help in their setup. Use of ferrite rings is an interesting idea, but I am not sure if that would work given that the cable has a shielding braid.

And then on the original topic. I am currently running with a tuned Squeezelite on Cubox i4Pro (+ liner power-supply) and think this is a clear step up from Jriver on mac mini running win7. I have been thinking about Regen in addition, but right now the microRendu looks like my next solution.