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Ethernet switches the good and bad

Hello myself and northeast Audio club have done a lot of testing  ,

a simple switch is very noisy , I own both uptone audio ,Ether regen ,around $5-650 as well as Sonore deluxe. Both of these needs high quality Linear Power Supply to truly be optimum ,by far the best best built and sonically is the Linear Tube Audio is a great buy and over 6 pounds  with a very good Dc cable modt chsrge $150 extra  the only upgrade That works is fuse to synergistic purple and put a decent power cord a solid 10% improvement still the Linear Tube Audio LPS is $750

one company in Hong Kong  by friend tried Ediscreation - extreme is pretty decent but at $1800 Waay over priced s Hong Kong dollar very over priced, and if any issue send back to Hong Kong ,very $$

by far the best I have heard is the Synergistic Ethernet switch which comes with the $200 purple fuse,a $500 power cord it Retails $2200 but can be bought around $1700 and built in high end power supply ,this is actually a excellent product your streaming is much much more analog and detailed ,my brother owns one and that may be my next purchase. in my system it made a nice improvement and I already have a Denafrips Hermes DDC that cleans up digital noise very well . Each product mentioned above works to cleanup noise coming after the router, which BTW 

I bought a LPS 12v up to 8amp from little green computer for $299 and put a Pangea sig power cord with a synergistic Orange fuse. Got rid of the noisy junk wall wart plug , a noticeable improvement and made even wifi signal to TV better, yes these are tweaks but, being a Audiophile nothing is off the table to try .I just wanted to mention this ,and see what others maybe using , Enjoy you 🎶 music 🎼 

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fastfreight
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Hello @audioman58 ,  I have done many things to maximize the sound of my streaming.  I have no fibre.

All network cables upgraded to Supra Cat8.  not expensive.  There are other options discussed by @lalitk for upgrading ethernet cables at reasonable cost.

Network Acoustics Muon Pro System.  noticeable improvement.

JCAT M12 Gold Switch with JCAT Optimo 3 power supply.  Big improvement,  I needed a switch anyway, and this one sounds fantastic.  I tried Bonn 8 but it was not impressive.  I first had only the M12, and I easily heard the upgrade.  Then I added the power supply and it was even a bigger difference.  Both are up for sale on US Audiomart from someone.

I formerly had EtherRegen, but the switch and the Muon easily made this obsolete.

Also the addition of the M12, with it's included cables replaced the short Supra cables.  I

Anyone who has said the switch makes no difference has likely not heard the impact of the M12 with good Power Supply in a resolving system.

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cleeds
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fredrik222

Here we go again. A switch will not do anything, at all, ever, for sound quality.

Yes, and you repeating your claim over and over won't make it true.

...as for synergistic research, the owner, Ted Denney, has posted online how he makes money of fools buying his products that doesn’t do anything. So there is that.

That's just fiction. Why not just stick to the facts?

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curiousjim
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Hey Fred,

While I have no experience with SR, I’d be really interested in seeing where Ted Denny said the he makes money off fools buying his products.

Thanks.

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curiousjim
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Maybe I’m just lucky, but I haven’t had any noise problems with my last two homes. And as some of you may know, I purchased a couple of those TP Eithernet to Optical boxes a ten dollar cable to see if I could hear a difference and I did not.  I’ve been using Spectrum internet to their modem to a Netgear Blackhawk router.

Maybe I’m just lucky.

fastfreight
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I never heard 'noise' in my streaming system.  I just heard better sound with the upgraded switch.  Was it 'blacker' or 'quieter'?  Perhaps, but it sure sounded better to my ears.

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