08-Jan-2017, 20:55
(07-Jan-2017, 16:20)Antoine Wrote: This week I also bought a 20 meter long OM3 fiber cable to experiment with something Romaz brought up on CA. He found that a direct connection to the mR/SMS-200 from his music server, bypassing any active networking equipment like switches and routers significantly improved SQ. It's something that's very counterintuitive to me but cheap enough to try. Of course the way I planned it is not fully equal to what he did since I plan to keep using fiber (my Roon Core server runs on the NAS PC which is in a different room) and thus FMC's, though I did look for fiber ethernet NIC's for in my NAS PC so I would only need one FMC. More info on what Romaz found here: http://www.computeraudiophile.com/f10-mu...ndu-31110/
When I feel that "tinkering itch" again to either connect the fiber cable or compare the SMS-200 to mR I'll report back my results.
Great link, thx for posting! As it so happens, I got a little bored over the holidays waiting for my Pro to arrive and drilled a nice hole in the wall between my listening area and office with the idea to setup a dedicated Cat7 audio connection (DIY Audioquest) between my main switch and the mR (thus reducing the number of switches in my overall network by one), but this suggestion of Romaz is even better. I've got to try it ....
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