I had the electricians come in and install 20 amp breakers in my box for dedicated runs to the living room for my ridiculous hi-fi. plus hospital grade outlets. also. hardline network connections. fuck your Wi-Fi. moving in this weekend. everything is in boxes. i got some new gear for the rig for a housewarming present for myself. lol. more to come.
if you’re trying to run an isolated ground circuit for your audio rig, plugging it into ethernet that runs to the rest of your house is going to bridge ground between the two circuits (and probably introduce a ground loop)
this is a situation where you probably do want a wifi bridge between your audio setup and the rest of your network. alternatively, you could run a little fiber bridge between them.
“network” is a dedicated run between the livingroom and my office where the interwebz comes in from the street. the wifi is for the personal computers and alarm. the network connection is just my work computer and the hub for my tv and mac mini which i use as a media server. i am all digital… if i still had a turntable i would be more leary of ground loop… but… point taken… if i run into any weirdness i will be sure to remove the ethernet from the equation first… and then go from there. house is fiber so a fiber bridge would probably be nbd. thanks for the heads up!
sounds great, nice work
Try the fiber cable in between, it makes an galvanic isolation. I have fiber running just before my streamer setup and it makes quite the difference. Costed less then 100 bucks, very effective upgrade in my case.