I well know. It’s a good comment though. Don’t you think? Ghislaine Maxwell is well set up. She really f… it up…
That’s really helpful. I’ll put this into practice as soon as I can. Thanks again.
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And I suggest at some point, that you either pull drive from the Lacie 2.0 and put it into a 3.0 or 3.1 enclosure or use it as a back-up and copy your Library to a USB 3.1 drive or Thunderbolt 3/4 drive.
I overlooked that the Lacie drive is USB 3.0 compliant… So, just connect it to an available USB-A port and make sure it is below the DAC on the USB 3.1 bus hierarchy…
… To eliminate any potential power/ground noise gremlins in the drive/computer connection synergy, I isolate the Library drive by employing this iFi Audio iDefender+ device (linked below), I don’t utilize the 5v insertion option, in this scenario. I just make sure all of my audio devices are served by a common power/ground circuit… I see that your hub serves non-audio related devices… You should remove all non-audio devices from your playback system power-ground system… It is entirely possible that the behavior is associated to ground differential noise on the power/ground/earthing scheme that is corrupting the signals to the DAC… Your playback system components should all be sharing a common power/ground/earthing circuit that is devoid of lights, motors, appliances, etc… you get the picture… By isolating your playback system components on a common circuit from the socket on the wall you will lower the noise-floor in your playback experience… However, there is no guarantee (if the outlet on the wall has more than one socket) that those sockets are on the same circuit, unless you know for sure that they are. This is why you want to distribute your playback system power from a single socket from the wall outlet to mitigate/eliminate ground-loop noise in concert with some form of high-quality noise suppression/filtering technology employed in the distribution scheme.
*** I distribute power/ground/earth to all of the devices connected to my MacBook Pro via a three-tier power distribution/filtering system attached to a single socket on the wall outlet, where all non-audio components like my Library drive, router, computer power-supply, etc (no lights. motors, etc, etc…) are sharing a common distribution point which is isolated and filtered from the critical audio playback components…