Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System vs SGC Optical Isolation System

@charles1dad

I know you’re in midst of setting up your streaming setup. Thought I chime in with my recent experiment with the Ethernet network. I’ve been using mesh network in my audio room for few years now, mainly due to my modem being more centrally located in my 3 story home. I always wanted to go direct wired connection between my streamer and modem for obvious reasons as wire being more secure, faster consistent speeds and Wi-FI routers prone to injecting both RFI/EMI interferences in your immediate environment. I recently removed my mesh network between my streamer and Xfinity modem that supports upto 1GB/s speeds and the results were not subtle, actually quite stellar. Frankly, I wasn’t expecting this level of improvement, given my Xfinity network speed. Well, removing mesh network pods was like opening the floodgates. The immediate jump in realism, level of details and separation with instruments and voices…WOW!

I know running a long wire from modem may not be ideal for many but MAN, if you could do it, you’re in a for a royal treat. Thank to @pokey77 for recommending LINKUP LAN, this cable is stupendously good for the money. I believe LINKUP is better than Supra CAT 8, not only in build quality but also in sound. Much more organic, natural and none of the edginess (brightness) you hear slightly with Supra CAT 8. I bought a 50FT run plus Ethernet Coupler to connect my modem and M12 Switch.

My recommendation would be to use LINKUP LAN from your modem to Muon Pro Filter + Muon LAN pigtail into your Streamer.

@lalitk did you ever demo the sotm switch? 

@lalitk What mesh system were you using? Did you power it with an LPS?

For everyone, getting rid of wifi, going to hard wired is great upgrade for many reasons given here and elsewhere. But instead of using long ethernet cable from modem, use long coax, coax much less susceptible to emi/rfi. The filters work in part because rifi leakage into our ethernet cables. Hopefully Rich Truss will see this and speak to this leakage issue.

Caught my miss. What I meant to say, long coax to modem, short ethernet to router, this versus long ethernet to router. Bottom line bring modem to router, even to point of having ISP coming into listening room, this is my setup.