Yes, for me, that didn´t have such a low noise floor in the first place (not very expensive ethernet gear or power supplies for the switch), the improvements when i added the WiFi extender and the choke cable was insane. Like going from a cheap chip based dac to a good R2R dac, in an attempt to draw some sort of comparison. This was done in early January.

This week it even got me into changing my amp/speaker combination to another one that i hadn´t used of a while. Suddenly that combination was my favorite, (my two setups are very different in how they deliver the sound).

Hi Tobias,

I want to add here that Network Acoustics advised me to put the Muon Pro just before my Bryston BDA 3.14, which is a DAC and streamer in one and internally the streamer is connected to the DAC board via I2S. The short cable that was fixed to the Muon, which was very light and you could squeeze it, went into the RJ45 port and my Audioquest Vodka cable from the Muon into my Bonn N8 switch. It gave the results as already mentioned. So NA probably believe too that it must be the last bit before the streamer.

I should test it with the NA cable.

Power supplies: you make me wonder how much noise leaks from my Audes power conditioner. It does a lot of good but probably it adds noise as well.

It also makes me wonder if I should get rid of my Bonn N8 switch which is also fed by a (nice) power supply of course because strictly speaking it is not necessary for audio playback. NA believe you should keep a switch otherwise they would not sell one.

Good debating and hands on researching here.

Pieter
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Hi Pieter,

This particular WiFi extender (TP Link TL-WR902AC V4), with Ian Canada battery power (as suggested by ERIC), seem to have such a low noise floor output that adding anything after the cable choke just makes it worse (the noise floor goes up), according to him.

I can´t verify this claim myself but my feeling is that this combination might be even better than the muon pro (on its own) just because that WiFi extender has such a low noise floor output, in the first place, into the choke.

I am sure you can probably get to the same low noise floor into the choke cable also using other methods. But having passive filtering the last bit make sense in my mind.

It also makes sense that a WiFi extender could potentially have a clean output since it doesn´t inherit noise from the network, prior in the signal chain, since it is not physically connected to anything, at least.

This seems to work to upload a picture in the private section and then it can be used on the forum

In this picture you see a balanced wound core. This core is even bigger than the ones I used before. From the JCat to the core the cable is shielded. In the core and behind the core the cable is unshielded. There's a slieving around the cable. The core is filled with hot glue