AndyC_772
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Don't spend too much time thinking about it; your instinct is quite correct.
Think of digitally recorded sound as though it were the printed text in a book, being read aloud by your DAC. Provided by the time it gets to your DAC it's error free, it'll sound however your DAC and subsequent amplification make it sound.
To get to your DAC, it's been duplicated and transmitted many times in many different ways. Sending data via Ethernet is akin to copying the original book a page at a time, then sending those pages via carrier pigeon from one device to another. They may arrive out of sequence, they may have taken different routes, and the odd pigeon may even have fallen from the sky never to be heard from again - but even that's OK, we just send another.
When they arrive at the receiver, the pages are reassembled, requests are made to re-send any that may be missing, and each completed page or chapter of the book is stored on the shelf (ie. locally in the RAM of your streaming device) until the DAC is ready for it.
Smartening up the pigeons really doesn't change the end result.
Think of digitally recorded sound as though it were the printed text in a book, being read aloud by your DAC. Provided by the time it gets to your DAC it's error free, it'll sound however your DAC and subsequent amplification make it sound.
To get to your DAC, it's been duplicated and transmitted many times in many different ways. Sending data via Ethernet is akin to copying the original book a page at a time, then sending those pages via carrier pigeon from one device to another. They may arrive out of sequence, they may have taken different routes, and the odd pigeon may even have fallen from the sky never to be heard from again - but even that's OK, we just send another.
When they arrive at the receiver, the pages are reassembled, requests are made to re-send any that may be missing, and each completed page or chapter of the book is stored on the shelf (ie. locally in the RAM of your streaming device) until the DAC is ready for it.
Smartening up the pigeons really doesn't change the end result.