Uptone EtherRegen

OK but there is no clock involved with a network connection, only with a digital audio connection to DAC where the digital signal is converted to analog to make the time-based signal for music.

Granted any computer devices can generate more or less noise as it does it’s work so that can come into play on any computer or streaming device.

Like I said, I will stick to wireless network connections to avoid noise from network wires altogether, so I have no need for this.

In any case I do not have time or money to try things unless I understand the theory or basis for which something works and how that would apply to my particular case, but that’s just me.

Gotta decide what to try or not somehow. Hunches alone don’t cut it for me.  People determine all kinds of things "sound better" to them....who has time and money to try everything?

And that’s perfectly fine. Your money, your decision. I realize six hundred buck may be a lot of money for some. All good.

There is definitely clock involved in network digital transmission. And there is also definitely clock involved with a USB connection. I don't think people realize that the USB and network signal does not get reclocked by the DAC. What they reclock on the DAC is the audio signal that is transported via Ethernet then USB. This has also independent of the isolation of the DAC.

Then there is also leakage current. Low impedance and high impedance. All the crap that goes on in your network leaks into your audio.

Wifi on the other hand introduces other issues. There in an antenna to get that signal, and that antenna, along with its (likely) crap PSU, May introduce its own electrical noise / interfere/ leakage current. 

@mapman 

All is good here, listening to a lot of music these days. Since I’m not an engineer, I won’t be giving any satisfactory reasons for the better sound except those indispensable tools, my ears. Like you say perhaps reclocking, reduced jitter, noise, I don’t exactly know for sure. I hope you and your family are safe. 

Jitter and clock phase noise are different ways of quantifying the same phenomenon. Jitter is measurement in time, phase noise is in frequency.
Mathematically the relationship is quantified so engineers designing digital components, DACs, ADCs can filter the jitter/phase noise. Modern DACs even cheap ones do a good job of this.  Of course this is information in the packets it has nothing to do with the clock in the ethernet wire, once the packet arrives that timing is gone the packets are then in memory. Only the clock embedded in the signal works with the DACs clock. 

this is not about "jitter reduction". It is about reducing leakage (both high-impedance and low-impedance) and reducing clock phase-noise.

Dow Jones: Your Google Machine works! But that’s about the extent of your knowledge.

I cannot help but observe: have you counted the number of your posts in this thread, on a product that you have zero interest in trying for yourself? Like that other thread. And the one before that. And on so on. Why? Nothing to do sunshine? Dude! Get a hobby. Take up sewing for example 😂🤦‍♂️