Another decidedly niche audio offering from me. Sorry. In another elsewhere, yes other elsewheres are out there, I know it smacks of disloyalty but now and again wanderlust must be assuaged. Anyway in this other place a fellow posted a piece about his experiences with ‘audiophile’ quality ethernet filters and such like. Snake oil ahoy I thought but I persisted and became intrigued as I am a little bit obsessed with reducing electrically generated noise in my kit and this post was in that ballpark. I started digging into it and came across the ifi Lan Silencer. It’s fair to say I was somewhat sceptical about this little device but it’s not ruinously expensive in audio terms at £89 and is returnable for up to thirty days if one is dissatisfied with it. So I thought why not I have nothing to lose and sent for one. It arrived late yesterday evening and I duly installed it. I slotted my ethernet cable into the female port and the male end of the little doohickey into the ethernet port of my streamer. I booted my streamer up and selected an album I know well, Myopia by Agnes Obel and settled back » Continue Reading.