Neat "Tweaks" to improve the SQ of your streamed music!!!


After over 40 years of playing around with high end audio gear, I would consider myself a pretty well oiled audiophile (old fart). My current audio system is very highly resolving, if I may say so myself. At this juncture, I stream exclusively, so I concentrate on and strive to obtain the highest quality of sound from my streamed music. I have installed several wonderfully effective tweaks throughout my audio system over the past few years, but two of the greatest and most effective tweaks that I feel so fortunate to have discovered were the iFi LAN iSilencer and the Puron AC Conditioner. I use iFi iSilencers on all three of my ethernet cables, and I also use two of the Puron Conditioners in my listening room. I’ll let you do the research for more details on these incredible devises for yourself. But, all I can tell you is this, once I added the devices to my already highly detailed, transparent and resolving system, everything improved!!! Palpability, realism, organic-ness, see-through transparency, etc., all shined though to an even greater degree. When added to the elements of my system that are critical to the overall SQ of my streamed music, these devices actually elevated the sound quality of my audio system to a higher plateau. What these devices do so well is they effectively filter out, cleaning up and eliminate the grunge and noise from the electrical signal in the listening room, and also the ethernet signal itself, to help create a blacker, quieter background in the music. And, all at, IMHO, an extremely reasonable price. Mind you, I’m in no way associated with either company. I’m just passing on to others my own personal positive experience with these two incredible devices. They're quite amazing!!!  Happy listening.

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I  have a puron with the Furutech blades which I compared with the regular puron

better image and sound staging ,for Furutech using very high purity Copper and gold plated ,Cryo treated.  The standard one uses gold over brass, copper is 3x better conductor , .$350 vs $250 the $250 model  I put on tv makes a noticeable improvement in picture.

My network switch and server ( SGC sonictransporter) both use wall warts.  I only have room for one LPS and wonder which connection would benefit the most from adding a LPS?

+1 @upshift I did this a couple of years ago. Adding a fiber optic ethernet connection before the streamer is the best bang for the buck upgrade you can do in my opinion.

I just had some fun adding an English Electric streamer and upgraded my ethernet cable to Audioquest Vodka (12 meters).  Its been transformative.  My digital is very close to my analogue.  Excellent upgrade recommended by upscale audio.

This is an informational and fun thread. Thanks to the OP.

Not sure if $1,000 upgrade is a "tweak." But here's go-

My Aurender N200 is connected to my ARC Ref 6SE CD player/DAC. Since the DAC can upsample up to 196, I added a Singxer SU-6 and an AES/EBU cable. This has tremendously improved the streaming sound quality.