ADOT ONI-100 Optical Network Isolator

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Without falling into the rabbit hole that is cables and switches and mains loops. To my simple brain this would appear to address a lot of concerns in a neat (as always expense) package. Any thoughts ? I did search but found no reference to this

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I did try an adot package and it made no difference on my set up, but that was quite a while ago. My understanding is that its not necessarily a panacea for all, perhaps @Simon-in-Suffolk can shed some light.

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Look in the search. Many threads on it.
The flavour is actually the English Electric E1 plus .

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I thought I had. To be fair searched for this model having waded through many threads. I assume English Electric similar so will look thanks

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Its not really the same. What caught my eye was copper to fibre to copper which made sense to my simple brain. Thanks for engaging

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Maybe @Farthings-cat can help here, if he has still the Adot .

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Blimey FR, do you remember who has what gear, or do you write it down?

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Found the thread now after searching ADOT and not full name. Apologies and off to read it Many thanks

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As @Gazza says it really makes no or very little difference in actual SQ performance - unless you have a poor hygiene on your connected ethernet switch (ie its not earthed and suitably decoupled ) - such that your streamer becomes the lowest impedance path to earth for common mode voltages on your ethernet cables and your non earthed home network products - unless you put an opto isolator in.

However I suggest its better to use a properly earthed switch to connect to your streamer so this then becomes unnecessary and indeed yet another possible source of common mode noise in its own right.

I note the ONI-100 appears not to be mains earthed and simply has a DC connection - which is often not ideal for this sort of use case.

But give it a go - but ensure you can return it - you might like how it ‘shapes’ any residual noise or the noise itself creates when it interacts with your streamer.

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Thank you for your sage advice

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Thanks Simon, i thought it was something like that​:+1:

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I am not a chicken, neither human, I am AI.

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You have a 222/300/250 and before full 500 series.
You live in France, were running a bar, and before were a tekie.
Your medical insurance number is: 128xf456d.
Guess where the error is ,:winking_face_with_tongue:

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I sold that a good while ago. I took it out and didn’t miss it which is odd as when I put it in originally I thought it did!

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So what next for you? You will buy it? Just curious. The problem with an optical bridge is the risk to loose the Prat.
I had one in the past, with two tp link converters powered by a quality linear ps. The soundstage was bigger, tones were softer, but music had less involvement.
The reason I advised EE1 plus. It gives the same effect but without loosing the Prat.
From what I could read here

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I think I will leave it well alone. All seems good and I am enjoying foot tapping. Assuming you meant me ?

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