Oh yeah, one more detail, the server has to be completely powered down and and unplugged from the wall and any other components when making the comparison, otherwise its noise will invalidate the results.
Hi barrows
I have been an avid reader of your posts on Computer Audiophile for many years, and have been following your work together with Jesus at Sonore with great interest.
Your observation which I quote above is quite consistent with our observations at several SGM client locations except the SGM being powered on is positive !
We have had a pretty hilarious experience of the SQ of a home theatre system being dramatically improved by just having the SGM plugged into the the wall outlet and powered up, no signal or data connection to the home theatre system.
What I have learnt in my travels in the high end audio world is that we must take seriously the full spectrum of data points, there is more going on we than we used to think.