Hi everyone,
here’s a link to an exciting Switch. The website isn’t online yet, but you can order the Switch directly from Farad or Mattijs de Vries and test it for three weeks. I’m still breaking it in—it needs at least 300 hours. The design is certainly impressive.
You can check it out for yourselves at the link below:
Mattijs is definitely one of the good guys in audio. I hope this product does well for him. The power supply matters a lot so this is very promising. Thanks for letting us know about it.
Yeah, Kenny, I agree.
He’s what people used to call—at least in Germany—a “cool sock”!
In English, I guess you’d translate that as “cool guy.”
I’ll make my final decision tomorrow.
The connection to the Zero-One-One shows 2.5 GB when paired with the Oladra; apparently, the two have come to an agreement on that…
This comment on the facebook page is interesting. “When the analog Hf signal is not perfectly square wave and there is noise present, the timing of this interpretation will be compromised, resulting in bad and digital sound.”
I can hear the network engineers thinking … if the signal is not square enough and the interpretation of it is compromised, it results in dropped packets and retransmissions.
However, noise riding on the transmission might compromise the ground plane of the receiving device. That might be a problem if the receiving device includes the DAC.
In my case the DAC and streamer are decoupled from the network via wifi, but when I change things way upstream in the network, those changes can be clearly audible.
I also recently had a very interesting experience. I had music playing and was sounding static like lots of tiny drop outs, but the track continued to play without stopping, pausing, stuttering etc. It could be said what I was hearing was extremely course distortion. It turns out the cause was an ethernet rj45 that was not fully/properly inserted p the cable was downstream of the server. This suggests roon keeps the track playing with whatever data it has, unless the data is so deficient it can’t.
So perhaps the impact on sound quality of networks is actually missing data that wasn’t retransmitted lime.
In my experience, sound quality improvements caused by changes to network seems to be because: