I actually had one of my all time favorite listening sessions this night. I have had my first cable choke for a while now (not optimized, just my firs...

Not sure if you saw it but here is Eric´s favorite choke cable right now and it should be the last step into the streamer: 2m SLIM SL6A + 1 x Würth 7...

As they say, it is really remarkable that this is not known broadly, in an ethernet context, when you think about how simple it is. That ferrit core ...

That sounds amazing. Thanks for the pictures also. I notice that you have your ethernet cables "naked" now, prior to the ferrit core and after. They ...

Wow, you are the man!

I can almost promise you that LESS IS MORE in the digital domain. It is all about obsessing about noise and every unnecessary electronic component is ...

I read about the Pink Foun now to understand. Those are the type of streamers that you can´t influence very much because they have too much going on i...

My thinking is now that you might have an amazingly low noise floor since it sounds awesome. The trouble is that a PC is not a stable environment and ...

Ideally you should also use the computer on WiFi, when using Roon, to remote control the streamer. Again, to keep the noise floor low in the streamer ...

Yes, but roon is fairly process heavy since it sends more metadata. Many streamers sound worse with roon then their native qobuz interface because roo...

My advice is still to remove the PC from the equation and only make sure that your audio streamer (remote controlled) is fed with the cleanest power ...

In my own amateur mind you shouldn´t have a PC connected in any way to anything related to your HiFi equipment. I know that you can do a lot of optimi...

Hmm, are you saying that it even gets dark if ONLY the CD player is physically connected to the DAC?

Or from your PC streamer, which maybe makes more sense? This still wouldn´t make the sound dark, in my mind, but i have been surprised before... 🙂

Wait, could it be that your DAC starts some sort of action internally for temperature control or similar. Something that under "normal" circumstances ...