Originally Posted by
Freddiekaberman
Hello to all,
I am new to the forum, but over the last 18 months or so I have built a very nice streaming system, with a few ups and downs along the way. The UPnP side of things took a great deal of research, and I ended up with a HP Proliant server running windows home server, this enabled me to use ASSET server software which I preferred to the other options. I took the advice to use a netgear gigabit Ethernet switch to connect server to router, and also to hard wire a length of CAT6 to my streamer in a separate room. It works brilliantly for me, but I do wonder whether a bit more tweaking might yield anything.
My question - many of us go to some lengths with cable dressing, support and power supplies for our HiFi systems, but has anyone gone to any lengths on the computer side of things? Any worthwhile results? My server gear is housed in a cabinet along with a PC and all the usual peripherals, cables are a complete mess and the Ethernet switch uses a "wall wart" which I presume might inject noise into the mains and maybe into the signal path as well.
It might sound a bit OCD to those who think "bits are bits", but I am interested to hear if anyone has any interesting findings in this area.