Air and Ravenna discussed on the ROON site

[Chris Marshall]

The internet does bring it out of some people!

I have to agree on the point about optical networking though, it's a brilliant way to put Ethernet in a DAC, no noise, ground currents or jitter to worry about.

Isn't that what the old Toslink was supposed to do?

Yes, as far as ground and noise is concerned, then the audiophile neuroses about jitter got in the way and we all convinced ourselves it's rubbish?

Ethernet being packet based removes that little piece of paranoia.

I have a pair of fibre media converters between my switch and the Devialet but there is still an Ethernet cable before the Dev and I've no idea about noise generated in the FMC or its power supply.  I do believe it's better than without, though fairly subtle.