Recommended Ethernet treatment for digital server...

[JonD]

I went from this:

 

Router > Powerline > Netgear Switch > Bartok

 

to: 

 

Router > Powerline > English Electric 8Switch > Bartok

 

This made an audible difference. If you get something like an 8Switch or similar audiophile switch from the UK, then test it out and if you cant hear a decent improvement in SQ, just send it back again.

 

My next experiment will be inserting an Uptone EtherREGEN into my network and if that is another decent SQ improvement I will swap out the SMPS to a decent LPSU.

 

You may want to consider going straight to something like the EtherREGEN and miss out the 8Switch, for example.

 

 

[JonD]

For a decent priced and performing ethernet cable I use a Supra Cat8