Yes the three Peek cones are glued to the lower shelf pointing downwards and rest on the carpet. Foor is suspended wooden. I’ve found that things sound better here resting on the carpet.
Thought experiment:
Commission Sean Jacobs with unlimited budget to design an extremely electrically-quiet router and an extremely electrically-noisy router.
Test the effect on SQ of each router directly plugged via ethernet cable into an ND555/500 series system.
It seems very likely to me that the result would be audible.
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Where did you buy the Peek cones?
Oh dear, a not very good position for wireless performance.
It needs to be in a more open position, hiding behind furniture and at floor level is not good.
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I actually bought them off Ebay from a hi-fi retailer. They are now discontinued I believe and have been replaced with another high-tech plastic called Acouplex.
They are made by MusicWorks. They use Peek and Acouplex components in their mains blocks. They mentioned to me that they had also developed an acouplex sub-chassis for the LP12 which apparently sounds incredible!
No wireless audio streaming here - other than to two Muso QB2’s in other rooms. No issues at all.
Melco is connected via ethernet - for control purposes only.
TV connected wirelessly - no issues.
Blu - ray player and Apple TV box connected via ethernet.
OK if it works for you ……
Like you my streaming is all ethernet Broadband and NAS. But my BT Smarthub2 is intended primarily as a wireless hub, I want best performance from that as well as Broadband via its ethernet switch-set.
My hub is mounted in full view on top of a cabinet, I experimented with this and found off the (solid) floor and in room visible made significant improvements to wireless.
Problem now remaining is it’s in a corner of the house & although it’s all OK in that part of the house, bedroom TV, smart-phones & iPad wireless reception was not good in the far opposite corners, so I’ve added an extender disc. Problems solved.
In a world everything wireless. Is there a router available today that does not include wireless which according to my phase pen is noisy like ……
I’m thinking an Ethernet based router and then link this to a Wi-Fi system so my Ethernet cable going to my naim system is not close to Wi-Fi signals in the current router but as close as possible to the incoming media converter.
“MikroTik hEX” and " Ubiquiti Edgerouter X" are a couple of alternatives I’ll look closer into.
I have an Asus DSL - ac68u modem router with the wireless radios disabled. one outlet then goes via a pair of cisco2960’s to my Melco and on to the NDS. Another outlet feeds a Deco mesh router to deal with the wifi. This way there is no wifi being dealt with anywhere near my hifi.
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Signal strength to MacBook and iPad in all locations shows as fine. The Muso QBII’s are located in the kitchen and a spare room at the other end of the bungalow. Again no problems and they sound excellent. The internal walls are solid brick not plasterboard.
My Melco is connected via USB to my Qutest DAC so no music in the main system is streamed over the LAN. The TV is connected wirelessly only for software updates. We use catch-up apps etc. on the Blu ray player and Apple box rather than the TV, both connected by ethernet to the EE8 switch/router.
Our next door neighbour has the same design of property as ours and the same BT router, placed on a table in their conservatory I believe. They need to use extender discs to get adequate connections throughout their home. Go figure…
The problem is if you have nearby neighbours then their wi-fi, not to mention the public wi-fi, will also be polluting your environment. Therefore not sure how effective your solution is likely to be.
I would certainly expect it to help, as with EM radiation the decrease in level is proportional to the inverse square of the distance from source. So it falls off very quickly with distance. But how much it will help and whether it’s that noticable in view of the pollution from other sources I don’t know.
Have you experimented - can you shed any light on this?
Mike said he prefers his router’s ‘wireless radios disabled’.
That not only cuts the amount of wifi signals that are emanating from his router, but also cuts EM noise from the components within the router that produce and process wifi signals.
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Correct, although the Deco units will be radiating wireless signals the cabling that is ‘wired’ to the router and then onto my switches and hi-fi means it is in excess of 20m distant. All PC’s, TV’s, phones, Echo’s and LED lights are connected wirelessly to the Deco.
That was my logic, right or wrong.
Oh, and neighbors wifi is barely detectable as I live in a village
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I’ll evalute turning off WIFI on my ASUS zenwifi ax and connect it to my ASUS node with ethernet to reduce EM on the ethernet cable going to my EE8.
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Absolutely yes - that is exactly the function of the switch. A router is primarily about allowing network traffic to flow (route) between different networks - such as your home network and the internet .
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i am sorry if i missed your question; but on a home network - a router has no bearing from a network perspective on sound quality. Sure a poor router could inject electrical noise into the metallic conductors of your home network cables - but that is a different matter.
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Sorry to divert this thread momentarily, but since you seem well-up on this stuff Simon, here’s a curious thing.
Our Melco is connected to our router via an EE8 switch. This is only for wireless control purposes from the Melco App on our iPad. Music files go directly from the Melco via USB to our Qutest DAC. Now here’s the thing. The Chord ethernet cable directionality is aligned as source end at the switch. I did this as I found the router affects the sound from the Melco via USB despite no music files going through the router in this case.
BUT, we also stream files from the Melco wirelessly to our two Muso QBII’s. In this case the directionality of the Chord ethernet cable is wrong! You see the dilemma here? Question is does it matter?!
No - other than there may be common mode electrical noise passing through the ethernet cables - or in some cases an earthing sink cable might be attached at one end of the cable only - but it is nothing to do with the network -the same considerations apply to connecting audio outputs from TVs etc into your analogue pre amp etc or using different mains cables for devices.
An ethernet cable carrying TCP controlled data - ie home audio data - is in fact uni directional - data is flowing both ways - in terms of payload data and control data. From a network perspective it is NOT directional. Unfortunately some marketing information from some companies aimed at audio enthusiasts and audiophiles who are not particularly technically literate completely mis lead in this regard. If I had time I would be tempted to challenge some of it with the ASA.
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I’m cautiously writing this as this can stir some reactions and that is NOT my intention, but his posts in some other forums were shot down miserably.
Peder, can you recommend a simple/cheap LPS for the incoming fiber / router (at the wall)?