Uptone EtherRegen


Has anyone tried the Uptone a Audio EtherRegen? I just got it delivered, hooked it up between my ethernet connection and my Bridge II on the PS Audio DS DAC. This device reclocks and cleans ups the digital signal. I’m fairly stupid when it comes to all things digital but what I’m hearing is a huge difference. There is an immediate improvement, lowering the noise floor to reveal clarity. The bass in tight and powerful. My first impression says it’s worth every penny of the $640.

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Jitter and clock phase noise are different ways of quantifying the same phenomenon. Jitter is measurement in time, phase noise is in frequency.
Mathematically the relationship is quantified so engineers designing digital components, DACs, ADCs can filter the jitter/phase noise. Modern DACs even cheap ones do a good job of this.  

@djones51 

Congratulations you added something to the thread that I can agree with. The jitter reduction ultimately occurs at the DAC although it's done so by controlling "pollution" of the DAC from the switch.

This switch bang for the buck is only beaten by the late Tim Mrocks total contact in my experience. Well recorded live music events on you tube , mind blowing sound quality in my system with this switch. Tonight I'm listening to Hauser playing with many guests in an amphitheatre in Pula. Wow! amazing acoustics! Amazing music.



Ive had one 2 days in my Lyngdorf TDAI3400 all in one streaming power DAC system.

Wow wow wow massive difference , every track I stream is like listening for the first time. I think I've squeezed the last drop of noise out of my system with this upgrade, I've been hitting noise and vibration control from all fronts on this system all year.

 Its only super mp3 files but its literally like being at the performance my soundstage is wall to wall floor to ceiling.

If you want a streaming system to rival an analogue rig you have to look at getting a switch like this or better (some guys in Hong Kong have done some listening tests and they prefer 2 SoTM fully loaded switches in sequence as a reference hifi switch but the cost of that is about 5 times more than Etherregen.)