One of the bigger improvements to streaming, which I made a few years back, was to add a linear power supply for my router. Verizon does not make it easy though, because they use some seemingly proprietary plug jack that has a just slightly bigger center pin than anything else I’ve found. Options are to chop the cable off the wall wort and use that, modify a nicer plug by drilling out the center and then soldering to decent wire, or just bypassing the plug jack and soldering wire to the board. I ended up removing the plug jack from the router board and directly soldering some Kimber cable in its place and running that to the linear power supply. Instantly better bass and weight to the streamed music.
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@ozzy I tried fiber into my Lumin X1 and preferred Ethernet cable. One might infer that, as usual, it’s all system/user preferential. (Got a different streamer and DAC and offered the X1 and Lumin Amp to my son and he didn’t want! I through I raised him right.) Will be selling them. |
Ozzy, Not definitive in this matter but when I had an EtherREGEN, after dark PSU and clock I preferred the copper as did another member I corresponded with on the forum. Go figure. The Clarisys Minuet’s are a feast for the eyes and I bet with the Michi’s and with the quad subs you can blow the roof off.
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“I preferred the copper” That’s been my experience as well. I have taken the approach to clean LAN grunge and block noise by adapting to Telegartner Opt Bridge 1000M - Optical Isolator. This gives me best of both worlds and I am extremely pleased with the results. I am using a pair of FTA Métis LAN cables in and out of Opt Bridge…I’m done tweaking my Streaming setup (for now). |
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