Ways to make your digital streaming sound better

Man, I didn't miss anything.

Banned is the best course.

preferably at light speed… even an Amazon converter should do the trick…

There is literally something wrong with this guy.

I honestly hope he seeks help.

@tomic601 dude that was epic! 

 glad to be of service.

speaking of….in my lowly setup the SGC fiber conversion… admittedly w over the top Pardo LPS beats ethernet into my Nucleus…. but i haven’t tried any of the various ethernet filters…. which i plan to do…before exhibiting tosh like behavior 

Usually, people are willing to help others.  But there are some who like to pull other people's chain so that they feel that they have some sort of power of influence, likely they want attention and not feel powerless.  It's like some kid who acts up just to get attention.  Sometimes they put others down so that they feel relatively better about themselves.   Often they're quick to blame others for their unhappiness rather than ever looking at their part of the problem. These people are selfish.  If they want to get along with others aka join the community they must change, the world will not change for them.  The change they must make is to develop empathy.   You can't teach maturity, they must do the work. 

Back on topic. 

Sifting through the many audiophile switches while keeping a lid on costs was difficult.  I'm not a fan of extra cabling connected to external clocks and LPS.  I liked Ediscreation and Synergistic Research offerings, but I finally settled on Network Acoustics new switch and Ethernet filter when budget allows.  Still deciding on Ethernet cabling but I'm leaning towards SR offerings.

Why does every discussion turn into a fight? 

@bill_peloquin 

Great question.  Have thought a lot about this, and here are two of the reasons I’ve come up with:

1) Internet anonymity has diminished the obligation of common civility, which is traditionally reinforced by the social norms of our “community.” On another thread, I compared it to the tribalism of the children in “Lord of the Flies.” Same dynamic: there the boys on the island were marooned on an island away from civilization and adult supervision.

2) The members of this forum are overwhelmingly male.  My wife is convinced that the Y chromosome is inherently unstable, lol!  If we were all neighbors, there’d undoubtedly be frequent fights breaking out, with the occasional shooting on weekend nights.

I've had good luck with these:  DX Engineering ISO-PLUS Ethernet RF Filters DXE-ISO-PLUS-2

Link:

https://www.dxengineering.com/search?SortBy=BestKeywordMatch&SortOrder=Ascending&keyword=emi%20filter

I’ve had an iFi LAN iSilencer in my system for about a month now, between the Purist Audio Ethernet cable and EERO (I figured cleaning up the signal coming out of EERO kind of makes sense since the Purist 🐈‍⬛ 7 is already pretty good at noise rejection).
I’ve gone back and forth few times to A/B with and without the iFi and I can tell you if you put a gun to my head I probably won’t be able to identify in a blind A/B test if it’s there or not. I think on some tracks, especially ones where there are only few acoustic instruments, I can hear a slight drop in noise floor, but like I said, it is really tough to tell. Good news is it does no harm. This is probably more of a testament to how good the Purist 🐈 7 already is and how robust the Ethernet implementation is on my streamer.

I’ve used Network Acoustics Eno Streaming System (filter and cable) in the past and that was 100% audible. However, I prefer it as direct and simple as possible (the Eno system sounded great but mellowed out the dynamics a bit), so I sold the Eno.

How do I use fibre for my home theatre when I have an Apple TV box?

I use an AV processor and have all the fibre gear but the Apple TV box don't allow optical.

My streamer/dac has optical but I can't split the HDMI signal so the audio signal can pass through the streamer dac, or maybe somehow it can be done.

Maybe optical is not very good for home theatre because of the band with limitations.

Why does home theatre sound sucks so bad? The wife cries constantly screaming why is my home theatre sound not very good and then I wonder why is my wife here when I'm not even married

Maybe she was there to give you your meds?

A must is a high quality Ethernet cable at the end point 

Is critical, as well as quality - Sourse power cords.

Everything counts .Remove all weak links in the chain.

@emergingsoul wrote: 

How do I use fibre for my home theatre when I have an Apple TV box?

I use an AV processor and have all the fibre gear but the Apple TV box don't allow optical.

My streamer/dac has optical but I can't split the HDMI signal so the audio signal can pass through the streamer dac, or maybe somehow it can be done.

Maybe optical is not very good for home theatre because of the band with limitations.

There is a device called an FMC - fiber media converter.  It converts fiber to copper or vica versa.

What bandwidth limitation are you talking about with fiber?  Please explain.  I run a fiber optic LAN and have plenty of bandwidth.  I have audio streamers, video/media streamers and an OLED.  Occasionally, most are online and speedy fast at the same time.

@tomic601 Don't go to Solana Beach.  As someone from Encinitas I can tell you that those are some freaky folks!

@tko956 Well , i like Encinitas as well… Lou’s records probably doesn’t have fiber….

IF you are still in the hood, consider joining the SD Audio guild or meeting for java, talk audio and music….

@tomic601 Ha, Lou’s definitely never had fiber. I’m still in SD, just waaay north SD county. Peter of PBN suggested I join as well. I’ve just never looked into it as I travel a bunch for work.

To keep on topic, I just started streaming using a PSAaudio DS dac through the bridge II and I've found a good portion of this post informative.  I might try one of those Ifi ethernet filters.