Melco Audiophile NAS

[DavidL]

I've just seen this thread and read about 50% of it. Apologies if it has already been discussed but, because the Melco device produces better sound quality by inserting optical isolation in the path between NAS and the player, I wonder whether a similar benefit could be obtained by inserting a wireless bridge between the NAS and player in the ethernet network. I have had to do this in my system because of the physical locations of the NAS and player, so I cannot comment on the sound quality difference between wired and wireless ethernet connection. I use 2 Apple Airport Extremes to form the bridge. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who could make this comparison.

As to why there can be any difference in sound quality I believe Martin Collums surmised in the Audio Critic that noise / imperfect pulse shape in the ethernet packets could have an adverse effect.