Regarding WAF, external wiring could be done beautifully
Or you could use conduits...
My little Intel NUC server could be anywhere on the network. Even hidden in a closet. I could run the home theater from the Jriver Jremote app, and the music playback from the Roon app. Both on my Ipad. I run Nomachine as a remote desktop on my ipad to tweak any of the settings. https://www.nomachine.com/ It's the best I've tried.YESSIR! :-D
But I suppose it will be connected to the TV as well for a monitor. So could always just plug in a mouse or track pad as well.
Creating a hi end system like this, one should know about proper grounding.
A surprising amount of people don't. I often come across star earth schemes for digital gear, and just look at how much resistance there still is among audiophiles against balanced connections...
I rather not run AC next to the ethernet.
I can imagine they have the proper shielding in the cable. It is designed that way. The system I'm building will have fiber inputs so not a concern there.
Next thing we know the audiophile cable manufacturers will be selling anaconda sized audiophile fiber Ethernet cables for $2000 per meter. And all there will be inside is standard Corning fiber
Ah, no, it will be single crystal aerospace grade glass from the himalayas, with carefully tuned wavelengths to harmonize with earth's magnetic field...
Ah, no, it will be single crystal aerospace grade glass from the himalayas, with carefully tuned wavelengths to harmonize with earth's magnetic field...
Sounds about right. You should get a sales job in the industry
The system I'm building will have fiber inputs so not a concern there.
Please explain!
Please explain!
Just like my Superstream streamer now, I will have ST fiber Ethernet inputs on my system. With fiber, it completely isolates any possible noise or interference from getting into the system. Also no chance of ground loops. Very cheap as well.
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I see. Thanks.
For my intended use this would mean having an AES/IP MUX on the front end (e.g. mixing console)?
What's your intended use? All that needs to be done to make one of these plates fiber compatible is use a fiber PHY instead of copper on the inputs. But not sure if Hypex does decide to end up putting AES67 into the plate if they would go that far. For me having heard the difference it makes in sound it's a no brainer. I also like that you can run up to 9km of cable with no losses. But the biggest bonus is audiophiles don't end up spending more time tweaking the Ethernet cables than listening to music. Because there's absolutely no way the fiber can be improved upon. A $12.53 Corning cable from Monoprice is as good as you can get.
https://www.monoprice.com/product?c_id=102&cp_id=10237&cs_id=1023714&p_id=6842&seq=1&format=2
Where can I find a Roon RAAT board that spits out I2S directly? With hands on experience with these boards, the sonic advantages become very clear.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-3-model-b/
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Yeah it can do it, but very poor quality. And how do you send 4 channels to 1 unit located in 1 speaker, and 4 channels to another unit located in another speaker with only 2 nanoseconds of clock skew between them?
Intended use would be e.g. church sound (here in Austria, we have loads of really old churches where speakers must be unobtrusible as possible and wiring is a PITA due to monument conservation regulations). I'm planning on two-way line sources, each 2way active, with full control from somewhere unseeable.
Of course, fibre is ideal, groundwise and else!
Of course, fibre is ideal, groundwise and else!
The shielding on the ethernet cable should ideally be connected on only one end, since there is also ground provided through the power connection.Just be careful with shielded cables - easy to create ground loops. I prefer unshielded to avoid galvanic connection.
Ethernet is not really a problem to run parallel to most anything.I rather not run AC next to the ethernet.
Ethernet uses differential signaling, without ground, and the standard requires galvanic isolation in both ends. This is normally done with transformers on the interface cards.
The requrement for galvanic isolation is because ethernet have a max distance of 100m, and the equipment connected will often have power from different phases.
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Intended use would be e.g. church sound (here in Austria, we have loads of really old churches where speakers must be unobtrusible as possible and wiring is a PITA due to monument conservation regulations). I'm planning on two-way line sources, each 2way active, with full control from somewhere unseeable.
Of course, fibre is ideal, groundwise and else!
Well if Hypex decides to build AES67 into the plates, and doesn't put a fiber PHY, all you need is one of these fiber to copper converters right before the plate. But the power supplies they come with are very noisy and poor. So best to upgrade the supply with something that has low noise. Or the noise will pass right into the plate.
https://www.amazon.de/TP-Link-MC210CS-Konverter-Singlemode-Fiber/dp/B00172MK08
Then you'll either need a switch with fiber ports, or put another one of these after each fiber port on the switch end.
But the power supplies they come with are very noisy and poor. So best to upgrade the supply with something that has low noise. Or the noise will pass right into the plate.
This just after it was noted that even copper ethernet is pretty immune to noise and is galvanically isolated (as long as shielding isn't connected at both ends). So what is the noise path into the plate?
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