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RE: Ethernet Switch

Posted by PAR (A) on December 16, 2020 at 01:49:53

In Reply to: Ethernet Switch posted by sheldonsimon2016@outlook.com on December 15, 2020 at 19:59:47:

This is one of those subjects that is currently at the stage " wires make a difference to the sound" was at thirty or more years ago. That is that it is highly controversial and that many will have firm ideas about how it cannot possibly work and how the notion defies physics and computer science.

I agree. They cannot possibly work which anyone who understands how the internet and LANs work will know. I have even spent hours discussing this with a network engineer. He could offer no explanation either.

However, like the situation with wires, the stronger the opinion that it is impossible that they make a difference the greater the likelihood that the holder of the opinion has never actually tried it out. Why would they?

I use a Melco S100 switch. Its insertion in my system during a demonstration provided an immediate and obvious benefit. However I have no idea why. Nor do Melco offer any real explanation. All I have found is a statement from them that it offers "better data handling" and that this has nothing to do with clocks. It even comes with a switching not linear PS. So there is no claim at all regarding the two areas that other audiophile switch makers seem to rely on. Melco is a division of Buffalo the largest manufacturer in Japan of computer peripherals,including network switches for normal IT purposes. They probably have better engineering resources to draw upon than others.

But I still "know" that such switches cannot possibly make a difference ;-).

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