Popular Post Miska Posted April 1, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2021 2 hours ago, intothedragon said: What improvements are you getting from this Surge protector? A while ago I got a reply from a Oracle Engineer with 25 years experience friend of mine, he has a 30k HiFi System and this is what he wrote to me: "It's a transformer. Judging by the datasheet, it is not substantially different from what is already in every Ethernet port as mentioned by NTK. Note that the specified isolation voltage is only 1500 Vrms, not the 6 kV claimed by the manufacturer of the tested product. In other words, this device isn't even suitable for the intended purpose. As for the supposed effects on the sound, it's all the usual things magical widgets always do. Forget about it. It's not even particularly funny." Those transformers are on every device where you have Ethernet connector, by the specification... What kind of Ethernet cables do you use? If you use shielded ones, the absolute advantage of most of those surge protectors is that they break the shield connection and re-establish the galvanic isolation you'd have with UTP cable. If you use recommended UTP network cables (plastic connector bodies), then those surge protectors don't make such difference and only operate as a surge protector for very high voltage spikes. audiobomber, semente, plissken and 1 other 2 2 Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer Pulse & Fidelity - Software Defined Amplifiers Link to comment
Miska Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 1 hour ago, intothedragon said: So, there's absolutely ZERO chance that a surge protector would make any difference in audio? Given my earlier statement, depending on your network cabling and overall system topology. Signalyst - Developer of HQPlayer Pulse & Fidelity - Software Defined Amplifiers Link to comment
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