Ediscreation have a similar device with their fibrebox
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Ifi Audio also has one.
Which is listed under Silent power division.
Both look good, unfortunately no option to replace the optical cable.
Where as with the larger devices it is always an option to try something from Cisco, Finsair or another optical cable that best suits the chain.
Probably all has its pros and cons I guess.
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Thinking of purchasing a used (latest gen) Apple TV and modding it to remove the internal switching power supply and converting it over to an external LPS. They’re cheap and given the improvements I’ve seen implementing audio hobby improvements into my TV, I think this may be a worthwhile thing to explore.
I saw improvements in the display when I put in a hand me down power conditioner. I saw improvements when I plugged a Shunyata NR cable into the TV, I saw improvements when I bought a second Cisco Meraki to mod and used that as the Ethernet switch for the TV space.
The nice thing about the TV is that cheap seems to go a long way… maybe because there’s more noise there to begin with? Dunno. Anyways, I’ll fiddle around with this over the next couple of months and report back. It’s also a good way to repurpose the 8 disparate LPS I’ve got sitting around all over the place.
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Will follow this closely 
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So how are you “extracting” audio from your AppleTV?
I’ve had pretty poor luck with standard spdif extractors, even with better cables and power supplies. I tried using various ddc and ended up fighting audio lag/sync issues. I’ve been tempted to try something more audiophile like this (with the 2ch output option):
But I’ve been generally pretty happy with airplay streaming to a Rendu endpoint. It’s not true bit perfect (it resamples to 44.1), but it’s the best sound I’ve gotten from it so far.
I’m vary curious if you’ve found a solution you like.
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I mean, grab an old blu ray player and some physical disks and that will be the biggest improvement. Better yet set up a server and burn to there.
The cheap route. I’m getting the HDMI from the Apple TV and then optical out from the TV into the Pontus II
This may be a better topic from an AV thread. Do we even have an AV thread?
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Them be some dirty bits ya got there!
I don’t think so, but we definitely should
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Okay after some reading and hunting around for the right unit, I bought a 2nd Gen Apple TV 4K, the A2169 model which is a different animal than anything before it and anything after it. Shows some of apple’s corporate thinking and then be bean counters winning out, they always win out in the end.
Anyway, will document this as it’s a pretty basic little project but I’m going to follow two rules, it’s got to be on the cheap but it’s got to have the same foundational principal I’ve followed in my 2-CH. which is address every component in the system.
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