Network Isolator and switch, yes, they work!

A few days ago, I added the Bonn8 network switch powered by an LPS. The promo writeups by the seller may contain mumbo jumbo, but it worked wonders. Some may say its just the clock that does the trick, others may credit the LPS and the psychological conditioning of the listener. To me, it just sounds way better and I'm glad I went ahead and bought it :)
Great news, it brightens my hope. My PhoenixNet is arriving next week. I will report my findings.
 
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I logged in again, after a long time and saw this thread. First sensible reply is yours. Good to see this!
Rant:
1. As long as, long distance signals stay in "digital world" they rule. Reasons, being well established TCP implementations and even various tuning variants which have their own parameters to optimise for requirement.
2. Other interferences (except EMI b0mb) can't affect non mission critical devices, because the acceptable error rate by most manufacturers is way low than our expectations. And EMI affects analogue devices too. So, if EMI is a problem... Better, protect electrical and connected devices first.
3. A dumb device (full electronic or maybe an electric device... link from OP) can't do anything in digital world.
4. Analogue is way superior than, the digital world can ever imagine, in short distance (At least in context of signals)!!!
5. If, one is streaming content. The focus should be on latency and bandwidth, and maybe subscription plans .Everything else is already being taken care by basic devices.
6. There were either placebo affected folks or the folks who bought snake oil.
7. Good DAC (that's where magic happens) and brilliant speakers are atlas of music devices.
Well done
 
Most of these issues can be gotten rid of if one uses an sfp cable and a media converter before the streamer/pc.

No need to spend oodles of money. All one needs is galvanic isolation. The media converter can be fed using an LPSU.

I use a not super expensive Ubiquiti Edgerouter X in switch mode. I use the SFP port on it to connect my PC.
This makes me curious, do streamers come with sfp ports nowadays or they are still equiped with the fuddy duddy 1gig copper ?
 
This makes me curious, do streamers come with sfp ports nowadays or they are still equiped with the fuddy duddy 1gig copper ?
I have seen lumin streamer cum dac with sfp port. So on the streamer side you don't even need a media converter
 
I received my Innuos PhoenixNet an hour ago. I hooked it up and yes, music is more organic and palpable now, a wonderful experience. This is thing is not going back. As I mentioned on some other site in a private message to someone, digital is even more intriguing for me now.

Somebody here in some thread asked if I were to live with only one item from my system, what it would be and I said my passive preamp but now, I will have to add Innuos PhoenixUSB and PhoenixNet to this. Why these because if the fuel/signal is not clean there is no point in pumping in more and more money down in the chain.

Also, I have a dCS Network Bridge on loan and this too performs at a different level when PhoenixNet is inserted in the chain.
 
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I have seen lumin streamer cum dac with sfp port. So on the streamer side you don't even need a media converter
And I assume one would use single mode/ multimode fiber cable with the sfp modules …….that would result in the cable being naturally immune to emi/rfi from the surrounding environment.

One of the reasons I use Toslink for my dac😉
 
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