New SFPs in 'da house!

I bought the Star Tech media converter in early 2022 thinking it must be okay because it's not the cheapest.

I had a Lumin X1 at the time and wanted to try fiber with it. I purchased the converter even though I'd previously read wklie's post long ago that stated a switch might sound better than a media converter for some reason.

After I set it up the media convertor, I listened for a few days and found a very obvious decline in sound quality. The best description is fuzzy and constrained sounding.

Subsequently I bought a switch cheaper than the convertor and the sound vastly improved. I still use the switch along with an iFi power supply with great results.

Hopefully, you have better luck with them.
 
Rnrmf said:
I bought the Star Tech media converter in early 2022 thinking it must be okay because it's not the cheapest.

I had a Lumin X1 at the time and wanted to try fiber with it. I purchased the converter even though I'd previously read wklie's post long ago that stated a switch might sound better than a media converter for some reason.

After I set it up the media convertor, I listened for a few days and found a very obvious decline in sound quality. The best description is fuzzy and constrained sounding.

Subsequently I bought a switch cheaper than the convertor and the sound vastly improved. I still use the switch along with an iFi power supply with great results.

Hopefully, you have better luck with them.
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Thank you Christian. I actually ordered the Star Tech and the GTek and I've decided to do some audio testing to seen which combo's I like.

I also took Puma Cat's advice on the items from PT to order as well.
 
I'm bookmarking this but have some RME and Ferrofish Madi recording boxes with SFP (SC, I think) yet to hook those up optically, running analog atm into thunderbolt.

But related to here I might try to loop it all including hfii on optical network (modem/optical/server streamer (Lumin) via SFP's and corning glass?) but let me review thread.

Puma Cat do you run a format converter to jump from the modem to optical? I'm not sure how it works yet. ?modem>format coverter> to break out optical line>to dedicated server/streamer. I wanted to get the conversion to optical straight away, right after the modem, hence the format convert? (Beatechnik has a new box for it). Or, I coud run lines of copper ethernet to a 6 foot optcal convertor/SFP server, and probably be good. I bet that would make more $sense.

Wifi router for non-audio gadgets. Lemme get out the white board and skectch a flow chart. More wires upon wires upon wires. ugh. I'm not even at power supplies yet. (re-wiring-in a sub panel this Spring, digging in a new ground rod)

Happy holidays, EOY.:lookatthat:
 
XRS said:
I'm bookmarking this but have some RME and Ferrofish Madi recording boxes with SFP (SC, I think) yet to hook those up optically, running analog atm into thunderbolt.

But related to here I might try to loop it all including hfii on optical network (modem/optical/server streamer (Lumin) via SFP's and corning glass?) but let me review thread.

Puma Cat do you run a format converter to jump from the modem to optical? I'm not sure how it works yet. ?modem>format coverter> to break out optical line>to dedicated server/streamer. I wanted to get the conversion to optical straight away, right after the modem, hence the format convert? (Beatechnik has a new box for it). Or, I coud run lines of copper ethernet to a 6 foot optcal convertor/SFP server, and probably be good. I bet that would make more $sense.

Wifi router for non-audio gadgets. Lemme get out the white board and skectch a flow chart. More wires upon wires upon wires. ugh. I'm not even at power supplies yet. (re-wiring-in a sub panel this Spring, digging in a new ground rod)

Happy holidays, EOY.:lookatthat:
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This is my current set-up:
Streaming-System-Setup_P1.jpg


The LC/LC optical transceiver that plugs into the SFP cage of the Lumin P1 is also a Planet Tech MGB-TL40.

Also have the iFi DC Purifier2s between the SMPS’ DC cables that power the crap Pace router and Alita in the RSR. These brought a notable improvement, also.
DCPurifer-and-Plug.jpg


iFi-DC-Purifier-Akasa.jpg
 
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