My listening room uses WIFI from my AT&T router to a RPi4. It works 100 percent of the time with never any dropouts, etc. Is there any reason I should run a cat 6 cable? I assume not. Thanks.
In your case, probably not.
Modern WiFi generally works very well, but our house construction (evey single internal wall is made from 4" thick cinderblock coated on both sides with render and plaster) is horrible for WiFi.
I have three Ubiquiti enterprise APs to provide acceptable coverage for mobile devices around the house. Devices within a couple of feet of an access point will connect to the access point on a different floor because it’s easier to transmit through drywall ceilings and wooden floors than through the walls.
I have two RPi4B endpoints running wirelessly and they work really well, though that is in part due to their proximity to the nearest AP, and the fact that the TVs, Fire sticks, Sonos speakers, computers, IP cameras etc. are all running over Cat6. WiFi doesn’t work for connecting network switches together either. Horses for courses.
If it has an ethernet port, I try as a rule to run a cable to it.
With a modern timber and drywall house, WiFi would work exceptionally well, and ironically, cable would be far easier to run…
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Seriously, do some around here have a frontal lobotomy/sense of humour bypass?
It’s patently obvious your comment was made with tongue very firmly in cheek.
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Shame Shame Shame
Sense of humor bypass for some.
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Well, I got flagged also. What’s up?
So, I’ll just post this…
It sounds so freaking good to my 76 year old ears I almost can’t stand it.
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I just retired my HPM 100’s. After about five years trying to make them sound good, I finally gave up. Don’t get me wrong, they don’t sound bad. They were just very bright and fatiguing to my ears. I replaced the drivers (except the woofers) with units from the HPM 900. I rebuilt the crossovers with parts recommended by others on the interwebs. It all helped a little bit, but not enough. I replaced them with Tekton Perfect Set 12’s. A much more laid back and comfortable sound.
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Roon Muse for the win. I don’t know about the 100’s. Room treatment might have something to do with it also. I only listen about 12 hours per day.
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Words to live by 
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Standard 1970-1990 South African house building method , maybe why I am so obsessed with Ethernet 
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Um, looking forward to more systems please
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I have 4 Ubiquiti AP’s in the house. One in the kitchen is pretty much surrounded by steel beams and suffers for it.
Otherwise, there are about 80 wireless connections, 24 of which are for 24/192 audio and work fine. I still have a few internal brick walls, I knocked down most of them a few years back. The biggest problem I have is in the bathroom. I have 24/192 audio in the bathroom ceiling that works fine, but porcelain wall tiling seems to be a wifi killer at sea level.
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OK, here’s my reconstituted system with Holo May DAC reinstalled. @jussi_laako has been enormously supportive as I’ve battled with HQ player installation, which according to the many websites I’ve looked at officially makes me a nerd, because you have to be pretty technical to understand it and I’ve got the technical knowledge of an ostrich.
I recently bought a Gryphon Integrated amplifier to deal with the impedance of my speakers, and besides the difficulty of lumping it around that’s been a success. So the issue I had was whether to keep the May DAC or use the internal DAC of the Gryphon. I also had the option of using the Gryphon DAC with or without HQ player and the May DAC with or without HQ player or with native oversampling. Roon and HQ player are being run on a Mac Mini elsewhere on my network (in a cupboard next to my switch), my hi-fi is connected to the network using fibre optic cable. The rather excellent
Innuos Pulsar can be used in its native mode or as an endpoint for either Roon or HQ player, the latter using Roon as a Controller.
They say (whoever “they“ are) that the May and other R2R DACs have a pretty analog sound. They have to be very good to be any good at all, a bit like direct drive turntables (see image below). They are also apparently better with DSD than with PCM because native DSD through an R2R DAC is effectively an analog signal.
So I was comparing good analog recordings with streaming and probably the most critical one was this:
This is a tremendously spacious recording and on the vinyl the strings are almost tangible. Streaming PCM to DSD through the May gave the same amount of air, the strings were possibly a little bit more “in your face“. Using the Gryphon DAC upscaled to its 32/384 PCM limit, it just didn’t seem to have the same spaciousness, although the strings were perhaps a little easier on the ear.
The Gryphon DAC dates from 2016 and is based on en ESS9018 chip. I could happily live with it.
God bless Mark Sears. I hope he’s continuing to recover from his horrific motorcycle accident. I was thinking of him as I was installing his analogue cables, which are pure silver. I use a Neotech USB cable, which they make with their proprietary UPOCC silver.
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Hi Rüdiger,
the speakers are used demos from a HiFi studio. They are fantastic.
Greetings Günter
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Hi Günther
Weiterhin viel Spaß damit. Ich bin absoluter ATC Fan und habe im Mai sogar das Werk im Rahmen eines England Urlaubs besucht.
LG Rüdiger
Translation
Hi Günther
I hope you continue to enjoy it. I am an absolute ATC fan and even visited the factory in May as part of a holiday in England.
LG Rüdiger
Hi Rüdiger,
Sehr cool. Ich kenn nur das Video von der Besichtigung von der Homepage. Sehr spannend und etwas überraschend. Ebenfalls weiterhin viel Spaß mit den Schätzen.
Grüße
Günter
Translation
Hi Rüdiger,
Very cool. I only know the video of the tour from the homepage. Very exciting and somewhat surprising. Have fun with the treasures, too.
Greetings
Günter
How do you fint a good curve for your room?
All I did was added a little bass and reduced a litte trebel. Trial and error.
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I upgraded my system with a Keces P6 LPSU. It provides power for the Sonos Port and Intel Nuc11 Core i7. To my surprise, the sound is a bit cleaner now, so it will stay. It provides enough power even on DSD512 upscale.
All components list:
- Keces P6 (lpsu)
- Intel NUC 11 i7 (Roon ROCK)
- Topping E70 Velvet (Roon to Sonos link, sounds better and more stable than native streaming using Sonos protocol)
- Sonos Port, Five, Sub
- Samsung ViewFinity S8 4K HDR monitor + Chromecast Ultra (Roon Display)
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needs some tubes.
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