Anybody want a laugh?

Fair enough, if that’s their thing. In my case I haven’t experienced any room issues that I’m aware of, but then I’ve never had speakers with enough low bass that could trigger booming issues so it’s never been a problem.

I dont want to disagree with a gentleman...

I will only say that controls of room acoustics affect not especially the bass frequencies but all the spectrum... And people before experiencing it dont know it and are not conscious of the improper rendition of timbre, imaging and all other characteristis that are affected by the non controlled room acoustic....

I was my self completely flabbergasted by those changes because some people speak about them times to times without insisting on them...The upgrade of a room acoustic exceed easily almost any other upgrade most of the times even of the speakers often...

I wish you the best....

P.S.

Dont be afraid by those who advise to use tech program, or measuring apparus, SPL meter etc... I makes all my changes by way of fun play listening, incrementally, and step by step with the helping of my ears only... There are PASSIVE materials used for the treatment.... But way less known are ACTIVE ways like resonators, Schumann generators, Helmholtz bottles, etc; these active ways changes the look of a room tough much more so than the passive way....My wife dont like that.... But they are very powerful....I use passive and active ways...

I call the acoustical treatment an acoustical embedding of the audio system, there are 2 others embeddings the resonant-mechanical embedding and the electrical grid embedding.... These 3 treatments exceed in S.Q. change any normal upgrade not of one component, but in "some" cases the upgrade of all components, so powerful they are....

Think about any manufacturer in the obligation to reveal these inconvenient truth(for the sale pitch) to you before you bought his 10,000 dollars amplifier or dac? Will you be pleased to learn that day that his perfect engineering gear is not enough by themself to create Hi-Fi experience? Asking the question is answering it.... :)

This is my painful, unsuspected, slowly gained, experience in my journey to win S.Q. Hi-Fi by myselves because of the lack of money...

If i ever had all the money necessary, perhaps i would have never guess that truth and would have been happy with costly gear, almost used like it is out of the box with very few means on controls in these 3 embeddings dimensions.... Like most people if you look at their virtual page system... minimalistic controls if there is some....

The truth is more controls there are, better the sound will be truest to his optimal original design potential.... Most gear are good enough for us if we treat these embeddings... Upgrading is not the way half the times.... And the good news is cost may be low.... I have purchase only very low cost materials and i have reverse engineer many tweaks with ideas of my own and it was fun.... If i can make it ANYBODY can.... I am a poet not a scientist nor a solder handyman, nor very crafty hands man .... :)

After 6 months of thinking about it and reading both sides of the debate, I decided to take the plunge and received my Etherregen yesterday. My philosophy about these things...if I need to ’blind test’ or switch the product in and out of my system, to double-check if it’s really improving anything - then it’s not doing enough for me. It goes back, simple as that. I’ve done it so many times and have no qualms about it.

In this particular case, the improvement in SQ is obvious and, quite honestly, I’m blown away by this switch. It’s staying in my system and has indeed taken it to a higher level. The test results published by ASR are useless, completely irrelevant. As further proof (for me)....I recently bought a DAC they had tested and found to be nearly perfect (Topping D90). It was rubbish compared to my Chord and was sent back without a second thought. It cost about 30% the price of the Chord, but was less than 30% as good, in my system. Ah but it tested brilliantly LOL

@glupson

" Tibetian singing bowl handmade in Nepal. Should it be Nepalese singing bowl, then? How does all that go? "

When the Chinese invaded Tibet in the early 50's, many Tibetans fled to escape the Chinese, including the Dali Lama who fled to India. When I visited Nepal bordering Tibet on the south, many Tibetan influences in art was easily found. My silver and gold bracelet has Tibetan writing on it.

rixthetrick,

That Tibetian/Nepalese statement reminded me of a board above the counter at a well-known local store. "Italian sodas. All natural pure fruit syrup from the heart of the French Alps". It was not even a joke, it was a real advertisement.

I guess that more accurate would be "Nepalese singing bowls made by Tibetans". Not that it matters, probably half of the world thinks it is the same thing.

The more i read this topic, the more i see that a large part of people here don’t understand how networks work. Yes it’s really about 0’s and 1’s and from end to end, TCP/IP network equipment calculate / validate a checksum. (UDP/IP does it too)

So for layer 3:
http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_TCPChecksumCalculationandtheTCPPseudoHeader-2.htm

As for layer 2 (ethernet), you have another checksum called FCS:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame

About the transit time, "jitter", etc: There is an easy remedy for this and it is called buffering. A TCP/IP network is a best effort network. You have to design any solution around this.
So a 20$ switch will do the same as a 50K$ one. Why the difference of price? Horsepower, # and type of interfaces, high end enterprise management, licences for specific features, modularity, etc etc etc.

So you can place whatever capacitor or anything else on your switch / product router (even gold and diamond if you want!), it’s up to you. But somebody somewhere will easily beat you if you throw in useless expensive parts... For those who does it (or try to say they do), it is only ripoff of customer who don’t know how a best effort network works and proper design around it.