I will dive into it and probably order the Muon Pro. There's a 30 day money back guarantee.

Still the discussion is not what is better 🙂 I think there's something else going on with ethernet. After 3 years of extensive testing I dare to say it's not only about noise.

Think about this situation. An Audio system is connected with a standard Ethernet system and the system produces a decent sound. After this an upgrade with a Sbooster on a switch and another high grade powersupply on the router made the sound really better. Then the Sbooster is replaced by an even better powersupply and again the sound became better. Then a better power cord was connected and again the sound became better, but now after 48 hours the sound became worse. So another power cord is installed and at first there's better sound and later worse again. Diving into it, switching out weak links by better over and over again made the sound better at first but even more worse later. That is the story 🙂

This story I have auditioned in at least 5 different systems. But most of time with less dramatic result than in mine. After everything I already have tried I'm really afraid it will be the same story with the MUON

I have read like a mad man on different forums for a couple of years now and i don´t think i have ever heard about that sort of delayed issue. Interesting! I can´t of course say anything about that since i believe you!

The good thing with keeping it simple, with the Muon Pro for example, is at least that it narrows down what the issue might be, hopefully 🙂

Well it's not so different as with the MUON 🙂

They measured the MUON with the Wavecrest and the measurement showed timing and phase noise. Phase noise actually tells how precise the timing is.

Think about this. A switch works with a 25Mhz clock. The switch is triggered by a rising or falling edge. The more precise the timing that this happens the lower the phase noise actually is. With a Pink Faun Ultra Clock from which the specs are incredibly good Phase noise at 10Hz is -130 dBc / Hz. They also did another trick with the clock to even make it better. They build the clock signal with 3.8V versus 0.4V for an average crystal. When the clock signal is that high the edge will be far more steep as well. This makes the moment that the 0 line is crossed even shorter and the timing even more precise. When a clock like this is built on a switch it can produce a very clean signal.

For what concerns the 25Mhz. I must dive in this as well because I can't understand how a 1Gbit or 10Gbit stream can be build with a 25Mhz crystal

I believe you as well 🙂 I have been trying to find someone with the same issue for years. The owners of the other systems which sometimes triple the price range of my system won't admit it isn't perfect. Still they say their system sounds better when they switch off the powersupply for 8 hours. Which actually confirms my verdict, they have the same problem in a less dramatic way.

Maybe you are guilty of bat ears? We all have the issue but only some can hear it (X-files theme song playing) 🙂