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Fully agree stacking 2 of SOTM snH-10G switches, interconnected with SFP offers lot lot more sound resolution. This is a gamechanger to listening, i had a nice offer for my 2nd SOTM some days ago, so i couldn‘t resist. Both feeded by Mutec Ref10 Nano, for everybody who is interested or specualte to this or similar setup, i strongly recommend.
Further side advantage is a even better video picture out of my AppleTV4K, which i would not believe before its possible.
I am using the LHY/Vinshine SW10-Pro switch through its isolated SFP to feed my 130. The switch also has a square wave 50 ohm clock output to the 130. Noise from that clock is -113.5 db at 1hz, and -142 at 10hz. In turn, the switch is connected to the SFP+ port of an Asus BE88 router. The house is on a 2 gig fiber service from Frontier, but Frontier converts fiber to ethernet in home and that’s the input into the Asus router.
The 130 has never sounded better. Its backgrounds are inky black, piano decays last forever, and the soundstage is wide and deep to the corners. I liked the Ether Regen, but doubling isolation via fiber optic lines, and the better clock really helps this unit breathe. Also, I went with the RSA720 optical usb hub, again connected with fiber to the 130, and run usb off the hub into my DAC.
I have yet to see any downside to more fiber in the audio diet.