SOtM ISO-CAT6 passive isolator --Anyone use or consider this device?

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"With the advent of full-resolution streaming à la Qobuz and WiMP/Tidal subscriptions, the Ethernet link between router and PC has become more critical for SQ. Or so audiophiles who are invested not in WiFi but designer CAT6 cables believe. That incidentally is a subject rife with derision from the IT quarters. Their folks know that the Ethernet protocol is immune to cable quality. Either the connection passes signal. Or it drops out. There's no middle ground. Period. Amen. Those intrepid adventurers who've actually compared generic Ethernet meds to the costlier chems dispute it. This has opened the doors to €4'000+ luxo Ethernet cables. Their buyers are likely hip to this fact. Most ambitious DACs use miniature isolation transformers or opto-couplers on their digital inputs. Here galvanic isolation for USB DACs has become one of them busy buzzy words. Computers are noisy evil doers. Keep their noxious HF chatter away from our pure signal. That's the task at hand. Do you imagine that these same audiophiles have grown restless again worrying whether their music computer's Ethernet port is equally fortified?

South Korea's Soul Of the Music aka SOtM iSO-CAT6 inline 'black box' inserts a digital isolation transformer plus sundry unreported bits into the Ethernet pipeline. That strips off noise which invades from the routers' ground plane. As Wikipedia reports, "network isolators are installed as part of a copper Ethernet system as galvanic isolators. Network data continues to be transmitted across an electrically non-conducting barrier through the applied principle of electromagnetic induction whereby high-frequency AC voltages conveying data are induced across an isolating gap. The network isolator is therefore a passive device and functions without any requirement of an external power supply."

$350



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Bob