Uptone EtherRegen

I've got maybe ~70hrs on my Regen and overall I'm happy with it and call the purchase a success.   For me it has been incremental changes which all add up to make a nice improvement.   The flexibility it allows in setting things up is a big bonus in my eyes.

1) Just dropping the unit into my system and moving the 5M generic Cat6 cable from my Bricasti M5 to the Regen and adding in another generic Cat6 patch cable to connect to the M5 I heard a small but noticeable improvement.   

2) I then was able to finally use my high quality 1.5M Ethernet Cable for the last run to the M5 and again another small improvement.

3) Lastly I swapped out the 15M Cat6 with 15M of fiber and yet another small improvement.   My audio system is on its own dedicated AC line and now by switching to fiber to the Regen I've cut an electrical connection to my noisy digital equipment all spread throughout the house (e.g. NAS, NUC running Roon Rock, Ethernet Switch, etc...).

I'm using the stock Regen switching power-supply but at least have it plugged into a different AC circuit than the one feeding my other audio equipment.   My last Regen related tweak will be to try a linear power supply sometime in the future.

For fun, try swapping the cables between the A and B ports and see if you hear a difference (e.g. swap the clean and dirty sides of the Regen) :)

Will do! I use SABLON and SOTM ethernet cables. 

@grannyring Did they give you any indication of what the prior issue might have been?

Absolute Sound just waxed ecstatic about it. No dog in this race.

I can see why. It does increase the apparent amount of detail and inner detail of your system. Brings you closer into the recording and performers for sure. Will you and your system like this? Depends as usual.