Through incremental purchases and listening for improvement, I have evolved to feeding an Etherregen via fiber from my main entrance point of Google Fiber. I have an Afterdark 10Mhz clock attached to the Etherregen. I have two Farad LPS feeding the clock and the Etherregen. All AC and DC cables are upgraded Farad cables. My Gimm MU1 doesn't seem to care much about the ethernet cable that runs from the Etherrgen to it, so I'm running a Viablue, although I tried a Sablon 2020. All of this equipment generates a very nice sound. There are a lot of resources tied up in my configuration. I assume that a vendor (Maybe SR has done this) will put all this into one box as a lower price in the future.
Ethernet - Analog/Digital Signal Clean Up
Curiosity got the better of me recently and I tried a pretty cheap tweak where I used two Fiber Optic converters between the eero access point and my Lumin U1 Mini streamer. Converted from copper Ethernet to fiber optic then back to copper and then into streamer using my Supra Cat8.
I was pleasantly surprised with the improvements this change had brought into my system and now I am wondering if I can do better. One other aspect of the current configuration that I don’t like is the clutter - each unit comes with it’s own power supply and add to that a fiber optic cable. I already have a spider web of wires and am not looking to add to that.
Objective is to have as much noise, RFI and EMI removed before it reaches the streamer.
Seeking opinions on the following units from those who had tried them in their systems:
- English Electric Network Switch 8 (Silent Angel is pretty much the same thing)
- Uptone EtherREGEN (currently out of stock)
- Network Acoustics Eno (box or streaming system)
What is your experience with these units?
Anything else to add to the above list?
Thanks in advance!
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I hate to be a spoiler here. I use a Netgear AC 1200 (works on AC wire from node to node from the Comcast router.)Then I really wreck it using a netgear $35 1GB switch distributing to a Bluesound node 2i. I further wreck The system connecting my Innuos mini mk III to that cheapo switch which both go to a primaluna inegrated with Cheapo $65 RCA connector cables. Using a tripplight isolation regulator, RF filter getting its power from a furman RFI power strip. . My system sounds so terrible I cannot imagine trading it up or changing a thing! Voices are velvet, strings vibrate, bass shakes the place with majesty. Silent between notes, no hiss. I guess I did this all wrong! Eeeekkkk. It is interesting see how to try to Justify an upgrade of this magnitude for Ethernet with sound like I experience now. |
@pcrhkr Hahaha…got a good laugh thanks man! |
The Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System is here! Running it in. I also have installed the D-Link DGS-105 powered by iFi 5v Silent Power SMPS. 1. eero->switch->Lumin U1 Mini 2. eero->switch->-Eno-> Lumin 3. eero->Eno->Lumin 4. eero->Lumin I can hear the difference between the above set ups but I’ll reserve my thoughts for now until I have around 150-200hrs on the Eno Streaming System to eliminate break in as a factor. For those who care, I’ll post the updates when I feel the Eno had settled. |
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