Yup. But in your case your Pass Labs gear as well as the Bricasti are so low noise and quiet. I would run the X250.8 straight from the wall outlet using a good power cord. The M3 will benefit from power conditioning and so will the XP-12 but make sure the power cord feeding the power conditioner is on the level with the rest of the stuff. But I digress…back to ethernet…keep us posted on your progress.
Ethernet opinions
Hello everyone, I finally got my system setup. I had a few setbacks the past few months. My mom had lung cancer and passed away a month ago. It has been a journey getting my system set up which is part of the fun. I am running Pass Labs XP-12, pass 250.8, and Bricasti M3. My original plan was to run the Bricasti with a EERO mesh network since the modem is on the opposite end of the listening space. Needless to say the EERO mesh would not work and Roon could not see my M3. I was on the phone with Bricasti trouble shooting the issue. I removed my M3 from the system and double checked everything with it hard wired to the modem which worked. I was told I could really use any Ethernet for the most part as long as it’s cat 5 or 6. Well, I returned the EERO and got a 25 foot Ethernet cable from Best Buy for 10 dollars. The sound is much better then I was guessing running a 10 dollar cable, for me it’s deff a temp fix. Especially since I bought two audio quest vodka cables. I am using one of them now connecting the room nucleus to the modem at the moment. I have read a bit about blue Jean cables which seem to hold spec. I don’t see me buying a longer Audio quest vodka cable given the cost. In some ways I feel like I spent more then I should have on the Vodka cables at this point. Opinions please ?
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@fredrik222 Linus takes the Aqvox audiophile switch apart and the difference between the two apparently is they sanded the part # off a chip and glued a crystal on top of some of the chips. Not a crystal oscillator, a crystal. Oh yes, they glued the screws in. That's funny stuff. |
@audphile1 lol, you are funny. You know absolute 0 about networking, and yet you hand out advice. And then you rag on an electrical engineer who actually know a thing or two. Funny stuff! Sad that people listen you and people like you, but people wake up when what you tell them turns out to be crap, as always! @tomrk yep! It is sad however that this is where the industry is at. |
shtr, Some good suggestions here. In case you end up going the route of an affordable but high quality ethernet cable, these are really good. $122 for an 8 meter cable They are my second best ethernet cables, oddly slightly behind the Audioquest Vodka which are my reference....but closer than you might suspect |
@vthokie83 +1 on Supra CAT8! I had it and it’s pretty good. I also tried the version with Telegartner connectors which is better than the stock Supra. As good as the Supra is, and it’s a really good value for the money, it falls slightly short of the performance I hear from my Purist Audio CAT7 ethernet cable or the Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System. The Supra would be nice for a long run between the router and the switch or filter, with the last leg using something like the AQ Vodka into the streamer. |
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