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.
Anybody want a laugh?
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Has anyone heard this switch from Melco? https://www.melco-audio-masters.com/uploads/1/0/1/5/101505220/mel_2073_s100_a4_2pp_info_sheet_v3.pdf |
The argument among those like the OP is always that we are simply transmitting 0’s and 1’s within a square (-ish) wave. But there is never any attention paid to how that square wave gets from point A to point B - it’s as if it is conveyed by magic with no outside forces (i.e voltage). The nearly square transitions are still sharp and sudden and these waves contain not only the 0’s and 1’s but also its odd harmonics. There is absolutely room for noise so it’s really just a matter of whether your gear is capable of highlighting the noise and whether your ear is capable of hearing it. I personally haven’t been able to hear the difference between ethernet switches and cables yet I’m not ready to dismiss the differences in the name of science - but I also don’t feel like this is a worthwhile area to spend my audio dollars when there is much lower hanging sonic fruit for my musical priorities. |
That’s not my argument. My argument is that the other equipment that will connect on either end of something like this switch, and indeed the internal solder points inside this switch are not capable of producing an improvement, so dropping this “link” in the middle of a dirty chain won’t do anything. Weakest link anybody? Super old principle that still holds up quite well. The mods deleted my original reply, which contained no profanity or anything else that would normally warrant removal from a forum, so I guess the AudioGon leaderships MO is defending the fragile state of mind of its membership. |
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