Pelliott321 wrote:
This is the almost final solution
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Keeps the Uptone Etheregen very cool.
I isolated the unit from the casework and the unit is isolated from the richlite shelf
the etheregen has a standard switch on one side and a special port on the other for your music server/streamer on the other.
you can hear the unmistakenly positive difference from moving your streamer from the standard switch to the special switch port. Its hard to believe but its there.
Is it worth $600? only you can decide
Interesting. Audiophile companies sell anything to make money.
I see the Etheregen has SFP port. I wonder what they recommend using it for? The reason I ask is, the SFP port is on the input side. Are they trying to convert optical signals into USB with this device?
A simpler way and better way of decrappifying is converting the electrical signals of ethernet to optical signals. Noise does not pass thru optical cables.
Setup would be using an Ethernet-to-Optimal converter near the music server and connecting the converter to music server with fiber optical cable. Of course, you would need a fiber NIC in the music server. Whole setup would cost about couple o hundred dollars.