15-Jul-2020, 09:27
If I follow the discussion here correctly, there is a lot of discrepancy whether one hears a difference in sound with or without EtherREGEN. Everyone, though, agrees about the benefit of having a 100 Mb/s output for avoiding issues with Roon-RAAT.
A much simpler, and much cheaper solution would be to install a switch that reduces the stream to 100 Mb/s. Those switches are dirt cheap. In my case, I pulled out my old Airport Extreme and run it in the 2.5 GHz band. That uses maximally 400 MB/s and, via Roon/Air, I have nor dropouts whatsoever, not even with 192/24 files.
When I switched my Airport Extreme into my setup, I could have sworn that I noticed a slight improvement in sound. I attributed this to (maybe) less noise of the Airport's switch compared to a 1 GB/s switch. But I wouldn't stick my neck out if I am correct about hearing an improvement.
The discussion on signal re-clocking, etc. is a difficult one!
A much simpler, and much cheaper solution would be to install a switch that reduces the stream to 100 Mb/s. Those switches are dirt cheap. In my case, I pulled out my old Airport Extreme and run it in the 2.5 GHz band. That uses maximally 400 MB/s and, via Roon/Air, I have nor dropouts whatsoever, not even with 192/24 files.
When I switched my Airport Extreme into my setup, I could have sworn that I noticed a slight improvement in sound. I attributed this to (maybe) less noise of the Airport's switch compared to a 1 GB/s switch. But I wouldn't stick my neck out if I am correct about hearing an improvement.
The discussion on signal re-clocking, etc. is a difficult one!
SonicTransporter i5 - AirPort Extreme - Devialet Expert 120 - ATC SCM 19 v1
