In that case, I doubt the inexpensive isolation devices being recommended likely yield any significant benefit to sound quality. Atleast that’s been my experience!
Why I Sold My Aurender N200
People seemed more interested in why I sold my N200 than wanted to answer my questions in my last post on streaming quality, so here ya go:
I recently sat down with my wife (who has a much better ear for sound quality than I) and we A/B tested back and forth between listening to the N200 and the Bricasti M1 SE II’s network card and heard no difference.
Just before selling the N200 I contacted a very well-known and reputable dealer for his opinion on this. If anyone would know about the sound quality of streaming, he would and I asked what streamer he would recommend. He sells Bricasti, Playback Design, Lumin and Grimm streamers. his response to me was:
"In my humble opinion, there is no need to get a dedicated streamer if you have the network board in the Bricasti"
Most member’s comments are very positive on their N200, maybe you guys have much better ears than us, so please enjoy, but in my case, I sold it and gave the much-needed funds to my daughter who is just about to start her last semester at law school.
End of story.
Hope you all had wonderful Christmas and here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year!
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@lalitk c'est la vie - I'm only out 50 bucks which is the smallest amount of money that I have ever been out on this audio adventure! |
@erik_squires so Erik, is this item Baaske MI1005 going to provide the protection that you getting from the Everstar or the TrippLite units that you speak of? There is no power through the ethernet connection only data, so I presume the only reason you are using these are a as surge protector, from lighting strikes and the like. Is this correct? I don't think these have anything to do with cleaning up noise or improving SQ. |
@navyachts if the objective is to improve sound quality by tweaking something in the network chain have you considered upgrading your Ethernet cable? I really don’t think you’re going to get any sonic benefit from any of the filters, switches, etc. I’m right there with @lalitk on cheap network tweaks. The cure is often worse than the disease. |
@audphile1 I’m no expert on anything, I come here to learn and find things out.
It was on your recommendation I went with the Purist Audio Design CAT7 Ethernet Cable (switch to streamer)
It was on your recommendation I went with Acoustic Zen Satori speaker cables. It was on your recommendation I went with these ethernet cables for the rest of my network: Patch Cables It was on your recommendation I went with the Aurender N200 over the renderer in my DAC. It was on your recommendation I went with the Briscati over my Gustard R26 and to honest with you with all the money spent on these items, I haven’t really heard much improvement over what I had, hence the sale of the N200. Now. I’m considering selling the M1. Probably return the Baaske MI1005 too, at least I will get back what I paid for it and not take the hard hit as did with the N200. Maybe I need to get my ears checked. In the meantime, I think I'm done here. Thank you
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