Anybody want a laugh?

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.

Understanding how networks work is just that: a primer on how it’s designed to work and not how it will sound if noise is introduced at some juncture. Knowing how it works doesn’t preclude that something poorly designed won’t have an effect.

I have a funny feeling that there are some who actually believe that since it’s just ones and zeros, that they’re so small as to be unimportant. That’s fine for printing text but reproducing sound is another matter.

Here’s a link that shows just how fragile those ones and zeros are since they are an electrical representation of them and are just as susceptible to damage as anything else in the audio chain:https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/audiocadabra/

Just the first two pages or so are needed to be read and even though the review is on a USB cable, the primer at the beginning still applies, I would think.

All the best,
Nonoise