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Pimping your router

1. Use a wired router only
2. If wireless router is needed, separate router for wifi
3. only streamer, NOTHING ELSE connected 
4. use LPS to feed router
5. use shortest possible quality cable to streamer
6. use Acoustic Revive RLT-1 filter on spare router or streamer port
7. wrap router and LPS in EMI/RFI shielding material
8. use EMO EN70-HD filter near streamer for ethernet connection
9. use quality shielded cable between router and internet access point

All of these will individually improve your streaming SQ, in aggregate the effect is significant
Enjoy the music
antigrunge2
antigrunge2 OP
1,427 posts
 
@timinphoenix,

your basic hypothesis is wrong. Yes, digital signals travel in mHz. The problem, though is that along the way they pick up RMI/EFI as well as ground level noise, and: no, Dacs don‘t fully filter them out. The result is distortion in the conversion to analogue that unfortunately is quite audible. Hence better cables and additional filters are useful and audibly so.
pokey77
1,269 posts
 
Yes, you have it right. ER = EtherREGEN by Uptone Audio. Excellent product.
antigrunge2 OP
1,427 posts
 
A little addendum to the original post:

In the meantime I have added a WA Quantum Tuning Chip to the incoming ISP and outgoing Ethernet cables directly at the router. Further improvement in dimensionality, location and attack as well as clarity of bass.
There are many things we don‘t yet understand about digital transmission is my take....
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antigrunge2 OP
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A further addition at the risk of looking compulsive: move your router to a different power spur from your main system and give it proper power treatment: i.e. filter, better power supply and cable, better fuse. It never ceases to amaze me how substantially additional efforts at noise suppression pay in the digital part of my system.
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