Ways to make your digital streaming sound better

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