You are 2 weeks late...
that's what she said...
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@vicweast "I’ll say again, "audio grade" is complete nonsense when it comes to networking. You are overpaying for a lesser solution THAN an "air gap" or galvanic isolation just before the audio input. " There is much more to audio grade than the galvanic isolation any old switch provides. Obviously you are entitled to miss out on this yourself; but to call it complete nonsense is nonsense itself. Fiber kills all conducted noise, conversion back to electrical adds some back in. Switches kill various amounts of noise, audio grade ones kill more. It’s entirely logical and easily demonstrated. |
@nigeltheflash said: "Fiber kills all conducted noise, conversion back to electrical adds some back in. Switches kill various amounts of noise, audio grade ones kill more. It’s entirely logical and easily demonstrated." Yes: Fiber is a relatively inexpensive way to stop all previously accumulated noise on that link (wifi does the same in terms of accumulated noise, but your mileage will vary). Now you have no noise next to your audio device... The only device you need is either native SFP/fiber in your, say, streamer, -or- a fiber media converter (well made, with a clean power supply). ...Switch you say? I don't follow where this switch needs to go now...? BTW, there have been several bench tests of vendor claims for "audio grade" switches. I suggest you look those up... |
"Now you have no noise next to your audio device.." Untrue, the FMC (mainly the SFP actually) generates its own noise. Generating this noise in an external FMC is usually better than doing so inside the streamer. I know of Lumin and Eversolo owners who have compared this for themselves and prefer external conversion and then a short run of copper ethernet to the streamer. "Switch you say? I don't follow where this switch needs to go now...? " If someone already has the FMC, it's worth trying a switch between that and the streamer. Yes, another device. If someone doesn't already have an FMC or is technically agnostic about how they achieve better sound quality (lower noise), many go the switch route instead of the FMC route. "several bench tests of vendor claims" Bench tests are meaningless as they don't measure how thing sound. All of this is stuff people can experiment with if they wish. My only point in replying again is to point out that (a) optical is not perfect because of the conversion it necessitates and (b) a switch is an alternative approach to solving the same problem. All the best |
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