@steakster - no thanks to me, I’m merely the messenger of a messenger - it’s Eric of ethernet-sound.com and keithc all the thanks goes to : )
on a related note, try replacing your fidelizer with the 902 - it’ll cost the lower side of usd50 - and with an even lower ripple power bank like the romoss pea40 pro - you might well be amazed how much noise is created by the fidelizer in client mode. You may not hear a difference, but my bet is that the tplink pocket router will outperform the higher powered fidelizer on pure account of the noise created by power corruption. The thread on WBF has massive pushback from keetakawee of fidelizer passively disparaging the findings of the cheap tplink902, in obvious fear that if more audiophiles catch on, many manufacturers of higher priced routers and switches will find fewer takers of their products - issues keithc has very graciously and respectedly responded to in post #423 on the WBF thread. My take on this is that the understandable concern from manufacturers about this discovery will push them to create cheaper AND higher performing products for source signal delivery to servers and streamers. It’s a crazy lovely sight to have the cheap white plastic tplink right alongside my solid copper rigs ; ) Seriously, do read that entire thread if you haven’t already. The original research on this tplink902 is in the original thread of the German site at ethernet-sound.com under Eric, but you might find it easier to read through the ongoing discussion on the WBF thread as it doesn’t require translation and has moved the goalposts just a touch.
This discovery is going to cause a rethink on power management and noise isolation by many manufacturers, I believe. It’s great you already had your air gap between home router and client router, now get that tplink wr902 to see the added difference it will may make - and please report your findings! ; )
In friendship - kevin