Drown it properly 
Sure - I have a high pressure cleaner 
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I completely agree in another context, not i this one.
Anyway, proof is needed to get repeatable results that can be validated, or dis proofed.
This is a way to quality check and to achieve goals or results.
“Believe me, it is the truth” is not my cup of tee.
People in the “audiophile” corner come with preposterous claims and want us to swallow without tolerating criticism on that claim.
They operate in charted waters and stil need to let us believe that there is more if we just trust them on their claims.
There is no progress there, just egoism, money making, and the need for self exposure.
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These users are not German engineers
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Apparently not. Nitwits.
Ah, the chocolate for people who hate chocolate!
I bought the etheregen by uptone and was dismayed that it made zero difference. I did not return it in time so now I’m stuck with a $600 boondoggle. I think manufacturers capitalize on the fact that some people don’t return these gadgets. Maybe they are silently ashamed to admit that nothing happened.
Others go the opposite way and start digging on their position because they don’t want to admit that they made a bad decision. Another goldenear is born. Not sure if it’s every minute though.
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Social Psychology, and more specifically the theory of Cognitive Dissonance, helps us understand that when the human psyche is forced to juggle dissonant (in conflict) concepts, something will give and the mind will reduce the dissonance. [For reference, see works of Leon Festinger, Eliot Aronson, any of a host of Social Psychologists who have written on, and researched, in this area].
When someone spends significant money on a device like this, or even just buys into the belief system that it might make a difference, they expose their psyche to the notion that they might be an idiot. Our psyches don’t like that. So when the choice is either:
A) This thing is bogus, I’m an idiot
or
B) This things is great, I’m a genius
The psyche wants to prefer option B. That’s the way we’re wired. It’s one of the fundamental mechanisms driving confirmation bias.
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WHAT is there someone who doesn’t like chocolate ?? 
You could always punish yourself with some of these 85% Cacoa ones , there are even sugar free ones , having been low carb (Google LCHF diet) for years I eat low carb chocolate and its not half bad
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Many encourage the ‘running in’ myth and ask you to run it in for longer than the return period (hundreds of hours) before the benefits are supposed to magically appear. Of course the longer it is in your system the longer you have to convince yourself that you haven’t really been foolish and bought snake-oil, so need to keep it.
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Just ways to try and get you to spend your money, buy music and enjoy it.
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I put a device called CleanVolt on the breaker box in my home (required an electrician). It regulates the voltage for all the plugs in my house and protects from lightning. I also installed 2 - 20 amp dedicated hospital grade plugs for all my equipment with oversized wire to reduce resistance. Cost $1000 Canadian but protects the whole house. My main concern was protecting my Mac Amp and B & W speakers. No more power bars anywhere. All electronics should last longer and as a bonus power bill went down.
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I’ve got myself in a lot of trouble here before commenting on stuff like this.
In the digital domain, worrying about stuff like power noise makes no sense. Particularly with a router that either delivers packets or doesn’t. Okay, shoot me for that, but if the interference is so high it causes irrecoverable packet loss - think TCP sliding windows - then its probably a health hazard No comments please - I’m joking.
But I do believe that folks who say it makes a difference really do perceive a difference. It’s called the placebo effect. It’s just that spending big bucks on sugar pills seems wasteful to me. But hey, whatever floats your boat.
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@Torben_Rick I think there are a lot of variables here that probably can’t be discussed properly without a lot of unproductive sarcasm. To answer your question… no, I would not put an LPS on a switch unless I had absolutely nothing left to upgrade. I would and have added an optical Ethernet run to my streamer in search of galvanic isolation, but I likely wouldn’t do it unless everything further down the chain already had a linear power supply. If you subscribe to the bits are bits argument, then you can probably stop reading. I probably wouldn’t start upgrading power supplies in the system until I had already done a fair amount of room treatment. It has nothing to do with golden ears at all. It has everything to do with allowing information to be heard that is being masked elsewhere in the system. That’s why this is such a polarizing subject and some people hear things and some people don’t. Every device in the chain is a limiting factor. If I were to swap my Denafrips Ares II out for my wonderfully transparent RME ADI-II, I’d lose some of the benefits of the isolation and the effects would be less pronounced. Someone will argue that my Ares II must be broken or us poorly engineered because they read that somewhere on the internet. All I can share is my personal experience. I don’t think you’re going to get a definitive answer to this question, but I can tell you that there are a lot of other things in my system that I intend to upgrade before the power supply to my switch.
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@312Elements - Have done the same. What power supply are you using for the FMC?
Have a nice WE
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@Douglas_Belcher - Have done the same- the red device (It is called Überspannungsschutz in Germany)
Have a nice WE
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Small Green Computer. Not a terribly large financial investment but seems well built and I haven’t had any issues with it.
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@312Elements - As I only need 5V, I was thinking about iFi iPower Elite.
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For the FMC or the switch? Is this the system with the B&W’s? The way that those speakers naturally minimize diffraction I think you’re likely in the subset that could appreciate these kinds of gains. My opinion is the closer the power supply is to the source in terms of components, the more the benefit from better power supplies. Those ifi elites cost more than my SGC linear, but they’re very well reviewed. Should be just fine.
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That seems like the weakest link in the chain. If you noticed a difference when you added the fmc, then I’d say do it. If you didn’t, then don’t. At the point you’re at with this system I think you’re probably at the phase where game changing improvements are going to be really expensive so it’s more about making a series of 1% improvements .
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