kirkwallace
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| Options to improve digital sound For networks, you want AS FEW HOPS as you can get. You also want AS FEW conversions along the way. Adding several switches, and swapping from coax, e-net, fiber, and so on is not a good thing. @mswale can you give us some more detail on the “ho... | |
| Network Switches Just to close the loop on this, the shielded Cat8 cable arrived and seems fine. No real change over the Blue Jeans Cat6a that I can discern. But some peace of mind knowing that that last foot from optical to the streamer/DAC/amp is now also shiel... | |
| Network Switches Good to hear. Thank you. I've got a test cord coming tomorrow. The system is sounding so good now -- the media converters with those finisar SFPs & the Corning OM4 fiber seem to be magic -- it's hard to imagine any improvement, but I'm eag... | |
| Network Switches @lalitk have you ever experienced any ground loop issues when using the double shieded 26awg linkup Cat8 Ethernet cables? | |
| Network Switches @devinplombier , got it; makes total sense. Thank you. I have returned the iFi silent power unit and for now, i am going replace it with a duplicate the double StarTech/Finisar optical “moat” with the OM4 Corning glass in between the switch and... | |
| Network Switches @devinplombier that is very interesting. So, just to make sure I am follwoing, as i am quite inexperienced with network technology and options, this means getting a switch that can take ethernet RJ45 (say Cat6a) from the router and has one or more... | |
| Network Switches On the LHY- Audio EFI, recognizing that everyone’s room and other components are different, has anybody been able to compare it to the iFI SilentPower fiber isolator in their systems? From the spec sheets, they seem very similar, except LHY’s seem... | |
| cable recommendation please from router to wall? Note the seller’s warning about the shielded Cat8 Ethernet cables: “* This highly double shielded wires may not work with some non-10G equipment which cause “Antenna Effect” bottlenecking network speed (down to less than 100mbps).” | |
| Network Switches https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/2810806 Thanks very much @deep_333 ! I found what i hope are equivalent devices on Amazon (bowing to tax, shipping and return issues). I’m going to try this out. I’m also tempted to do this for the reason @erik... | |
| Network Switches “If you want to eliminate any noise into your streamer or dac, convert the Ethernet to fiber then back to Ethernet at the streamer/dac.” @rbstehno , @deep_333 and anybody else who knows, I’ve been thinking about trying this, as an empirical expe... | |
| Network Switches @erik_squires, if you have a second, along the lines of this discussion of switches and power sources, can you tell me what you’d recommend i do about power supplies? I have an NAD M33 that serves as integrated amp and streamer & DAC. It is E... |