It's a larger upgrade then you'd expect isn't it
Absolutely agree.
I still don’t understand why overall noise floor is lower: i.e., nothing playing, DAC off, just listening to background ’hiss’ through the speakers. (Yes, hiss should not even be audible; and DarTZeel is addressing this shortly - it turns out the 18NS preamp is not that well suited to very high efficiency horns; but that’s another topic.)
Therefore, the fact that noise is audible allows me to hear changes, and the Taiko Router absolutely reduced it! My only guess as to why is that it’s somehow made the Eero Max 7 cleaner, in other words it reduced noise in an upstream router?!
Also, the benefits on the A/V side are a significant bonus, which is phenomenal. Video is clearer, audio is more localized, and noise floor is lower.
I did try to connect the Trinnov to the wireless TaikoAudio network; and it didn’t work. I of course do not expect Taiko to support this; but perhaps someone here knows why. The Trinnov Altitude 32 did get an IP and the iOS Trinnov app saw the unit (with the iPad on the Taiko SSID); but I could not connect to the Trinnov - I kept getting a timeout error. Given the great results I got by connecting the Apple TV “X” to the Router (via Ethernet), I thought I should also connect the Trinnov to the Router (via Wifi - Ethernet is not feasible). (The Altitude is a custom PC that performs multichannel audio processing and is controlled by an iPad over a network, similar to the Extreme/XDMS in this regard).