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In Reply to: RE: Nice reveiw, Steve. Thanks! -nt posted by Mercman on August 25, 2016 at 08:00:34
I learned the value of power supplies experimenting using different approaches with my Touch player. A good linear or even strong phone charger quite noticeably cleaned up the sound and lowered the noise floor. I too, use an HD-Plex with mine although I suspected that the Sonore unit at quadruple the investment would likely be superior.
The only part of the review that puts me in a bit of quandary is regarding the ethernet cable. Not only is my computer at great distance from the µRendu, it's on a different floor of the house! The office where the computer is located has built-in shelves so I ran a CAT6 cable up and drilled a hole so that it passes to an attic area above where is spans some distance and enters the listening room. Consequently, it is 60 feet long.
Tell me if I understand your arrangement correctly:
1. One TP-LINK MC200CM Gigabit Media Converter is connected to switch via short ethernet cable. I see NewEgg sells those for about $50 each.
2. The second TP-LINK MC200CM Gigabit Media Converter is located near the µRendu via a run of the Tripp Lite multimode cable (NewEgg sells a 25M run for around $50 as well)
3. Final connection is via another short ethernet cable
If I'm correct, I see that it would run me around $150 plus the two short Ethernet cables to use your arrangement.
Thanks!
Follow Ups:
Yes, that is correct. There are a number of ways this could be done. I could have isolated the microRendu from my computer with additional converters and get rid of the Netgear switch. Just more noisy SMPS to deal with.
But at the end of the day, things are sounding very nice.
Just more noisy SMPS to deal with.
Fortunately, my Cisco switch doesn't use a wall wart.
Given the differences among ethernet cables, who's to say the same isn't true of optical cables as well? Maybe there are "high end" multi mode fiber patch cables, too. ;)
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