Neat "Tweaks" to improve the SQ of your streamed music!!!


After over 40 years of playing around with high end audio gear, I would consider myself a pretty well oiled audiophile (old fart). My current audio system is very highly resolving, if I may say so myself. At this juncture, I stream exclusively, so I concentrate on and strive to obtain the highest quality of sound from my streamed music. I have installed several wonderfully effective tweaks throughout my audio system over the past few years, but two of the greatest and most effective tweaks that I feel so fortunate to have discovered were the iFi LAN iSilencer and the Puron AC Conditioner. I use iFi iSilencers on all three of my ethernet cables, and I also use two of the Puron Conditioners in my listening room. I’ll let you do the research for more details on these incredible devises for yourself. But, all I can tell you is this, once I added the devices to my already highly detailed, transparent and resolving system, everything improved!!! Palpability, realism, organic-ness, see-through transparency, etc., all shined though to an even greater degree. When added to the elements of my system that are critical to the overall SQ of my streamed music, these devices actually elevated the sound quality of my audio system to a higher plateau. What these devices do so well is they effectively filter out, cleaning up and eliminate the grunge and noise from the electrical signal in the listening room, and also the ethernet signal itself, to help create a blacker, quieter background in the music. And, all at, IMHO, an extremely reasonable price. Mind you, I’m in no way associated with either company. I’m just passing on to others my own personal positive experience with these two incredible devices. They're quite amazing!!!  Happy listening.

kennymacc

I've recently bought an ifi LAN iSilencer, used between router and Netgear switch, which feeds my Network Acoustic ENO filter -> streamer. For £89, it made a nice incremental improvement, similar to your descriptions.

I'll be swapping out the Netgear for a LHY SW8 once received. 

For starters one thing stands out ,The router modem combo ,the crappy $5 wall wart that powers your router induces a ton of noise. I put a excellent  Linear Tube Audio LPS power supply ,night and day cleaner and comes with a excellent DC cable that goes to the router most charge $150 just for 5he cable.

they were  $50 off if bought on Audiogon , also a decent Ethernet switch 

LHY- SW8; for $599 a very good buy ,it has a Tamura LPS  , a OCXO over controlled clock, low noise regulators , night and day better then the $30 ones just use a good powercord n both  and I also used 2 quality fuses 1-Synergistic purple tothe LPS, a Gold supreme Hifi tuning  + plus quality Ethernet cables ,of the 2 

the best one should be at your streamer .

One of the best tweaks I did for my system is to replace the 50 foot Cat 6 ethernet run from my router to my streamer with an optical run.  What a difference!

I need to A/B the change again, but I’d be hard pressed to tell the iFi LAN iSilencer is in or out of the system. I have mine between Ethernet cable and router. I’ll try between Ethernet and streamer.