Lumin U1 mini or Auralic aries G1 as a Roon replacement

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

Please use unshielded CAT-6 Ethernet cable.

Lumin has standard transformer isolation for Ethernet port, but if you’re worried about Ethernet noise, consider fiber isolation:

Optical Network for U1

Currently we do not have plan to introduce any hardware changes to U1. For optical-based network isolation for Lumin products (other than X1 which has built-in SFP port for optical network), there are two ways to do it. Expensive way: https://www.audioshark.org/computer-digital-audio-11/gigafoil-v4-inline-ethernet-filter-15781.html (Note that there is an incompatibility report with Netgear Mesh product.) Inexpensive way: A cheaper alternative to do fiber network isolation is to use a pair …