UpTone Audio EtherREGEN Listening Impressions

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With etherregen, is networked audio now equal SQ to a player with internal hard drive playing directly without network?

 

I have an Auralic Aries G2 player with internal hard drive.  With Auralic's own player app I can play from the internal hard drive and avoid network noise.  I was hoping to use Roon, which requires me to flow audio over the network to play on the G2, regardless if it is from internal hard drive.  Right now my network only has cheap equipment and the internal drive sounds better direct, than with Roon over network.  Would etherregen make Roon sound nearly equally good?

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If etherregen makes networked audio sound as good as internal hard drive, I would buy it.  Can it do that if my ethernet cable, router, and switches are all typical cheap type? 

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In post 718 I wrote "the internal drive sounds better direct, than with Roon over network".  I take that back.  More careful testing tonight shows I can not hear a significant difference.  But maybe an etherregen would beat both ways.  

 

Thanks to LowMidHigh and so-no-mah for your comments.