Higher End DACs

The RF "sauce" is not latency influenced. How much RF is bandwidth influenced. If you are making the router/switch work hard (latency has little impact on that), then the RF signature goes up.

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A major high end DAC manufacturer actually recommends removing their Renderer module for an audible sonic uptick ...

Which manufacturer is that?

RF is the elephant in the room. The invisible elephant that changes shape and size with every digital tweak ...but still remains to affect the DAC. It's all because we have clocked digital devices proximate to the highly sensitive D/A.

Ahhh...but what if you could reduce RF to the minimum. So only room ambient remains?  Easy: put your entire digital chain inside a RF shielded enclosure (like my RF-STOP box). Only optical out; only optical in; and well isolated AC input.
It means audiophiles have to reconsider how they deal with high end audio tweaks. No single point product fixes the RF issue. No single manufacturer is dealing with all products RF emissions.
But today we can put our whole works into a Faraday box, follow a few simple principles for I/O and the elephant goes away.

Very interesting thread....Thanks...

Or do what I do and stop the RF at it’s source (coming in through the windows from outside) and turn the entire building into one giant Faraday cage. Problem solved! 🤗 it’s not that difficult. Furthermore, while not widely known, tiny little bowl resonators are effective in normalizing pressure zones in the room for acoustic wavelengths AND RF wavelengths. They’re Two! Two mints in one! 👯‍♀️