Do router and ethernet cables affect sound quality?

[mikeb]

This is worth quoting, from the last time this subject came up:

Valley of "audiophile" ethernet cables

That is not at all what I am implying… When a digital audio stream is altered it can happen a few ways: bits are changed and/or lost and caught by error correction techniques causing a retransmit bits are changed and/or lost and not caught by error correction techniques so they are allowed to be played In the case of #1, if the errors are caught, a retransmit can be requested and if the retransmitted data arrives fast enough that the buffer is not emptied, then the resultant stream is still …