Anybody want a laugh?


https://www.ebay.com/itm/254589502418

Yes, that’s a network switch marketed to Audiophiles. 
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’Fidelizer Etherstream Network Switch - RRP - £395

NEW

EtherStream Network Switch is a modified Cisco SG110D-08 network switch with the following modification:

-Input capacitor upgraded higher capacitance and ultra low ESR tuned for optimal performance
-Safety resistors upgraded on DC input stage, power regulation stage, LAN transformer isolation stage
-Re-energize capacitors upgrade with special type of tantalum capacitor to effectively reduce noise and interference in main processor
-Crystal clock is upgraded with high quality clock from Japan with noise reduction tweaks
-Components are upgraded with very high quality solder providing solid bass and dynamics

It’s the most affordable and most effective network switch upgrade enough for clients to prefer EtherStream over some highend audiophile switch or 10G premium network switch models too. I can guarantee that you will find very satisfying improvements on streaming media for both audio/video.


Please contact us through eBay for more information.’

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Probably the best bit of a rather vague sales pitch is this line. 


’I can guarantee that you will find very satisfying improvements on streaming media for both audio/video.’


Typically whilst nothing concrete is stated, the implications are presented subtly.

There’s also more than a touch of humour around the name too - eliteaudioltd.

Seriously, I wonder how easy it would be to dupe gullible audiophiles? Exactly how big is this unsuspecting market?

Just as an harmless fun experiment perhaps one of us could buy a dozen fuses and then sell them online at a huge premium claiming some quasi magnetic /cryogenic /dark space enhancements?

The only foreseeable problem, moral considerations aside, would be just how to explain the scam to your customers afterwards.

Even worse, what if they then refuse to believe you?

What’s that I hear you say?
Sell them some more??

Can you imagine how designers of genuinely effective products (with tested and measured enhancements) must feel when they such practices?
We can only wonder. Did anyone bother to read the ad? Caps, resistors, etc this is all the same quality parts upgrades as are standard and known to work in all sorts of components. The laugh is you guys apparently are unaware of this. Which if this was on any other site it would be funny. Ho ho, the ignorant rubes don’t get that sound quality matters. That you are laughing about audiophiles on a site specifically meant for audiophiles is sad to borderline tragic.