EtherREGEN: The long development thread. [Some Gen2 dev. pics and update starting on page 92.]

[Adyc]

Alex, have you tested whether there are benefits using two EtherRegens in series?

[Adyc]

15 hours ago, Bernstein said:

 

@Superdad This tells (almost) everything  

 

 

Intersting. Is Mean Well SMPS a power conditioner? I can understand the Mean Well SMPS is a well designed power supply and won’t introduces noises. But the video actually seems to imply that it actually reduces noises! If this is true, it would be the cheapest power conditioner in the planet.

[Adyc]

11 hours ago, JohnSwenson said:

The EtherREGEN was designed so it works very well going "backwards", the B side port connected to a switch and the SFP optical connection to a renderer with an optical input such as the opticalRendu. All the isolation works identically in both directions.

 

John S.

 

I thought OR only works with 1 Gbit? Or OR requires 1Gbit transceiver, the actual network speed does not matter?

[Adyc]

6 hours ago, Matias said:

 

My current setup:

ethernet cable coming to living room => generic switch => ultraRendu (and other non audio devices: AVR, HTPC, video game console) => ISO Regen => DAC.

 

Upgrade path option 1:

ethernet cable => EtherREGEN => ultraRendu on B side (and other devices on A side) => ISO Regen => DAC

 

Upgrade path option 2:

ethernet cable => generic switch => opticalModule (and other devices) => opticalRendu => ISO Regen => DAC

 

Both should provide electrical isolation and better phase noise to the different Rendus.

But option 2 raises the box count, which is not desirable...

For option 2, I would replace OM with ER. If what Alex says is true on the power supply of ER, one doesn’t need to buy an expensive LPS for ER. However, a lot of reports say OM improves with better LPS. So the total cost is actually cheaper for ER.  Second, the technology is much more sophisticated for ER.

 

That’s what I’m going to do.