TheOctopus
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Dr. Freud... please don't get me started on the coke addict .
And we are all here on this audio forum because we are addiction free?
Dr. Freud... please don't get me started on the coke addict .
And we are all here on this audio forum because we are addiction free?
Hehe.. true...
... the class on Freud back in University was about the most absurd class I think I ever have taken.
By the way, them Niners blow (honestly I have no idea if the 49ers are good or bad this year, I am a Baseball fan not a Football fan, just stirring the pot )
As a Taiko Extreme owner I'm commited to Emile's ecosystem and will no doubt purchase his switch when it is released to market. Having said this, I currently use an EtherRegen and it was a significant addition to my system...I was surprised at how much better it was than the generic Netgear switch previously used. I power the EtherRegen from an Uptone JS2 LPS and that is a great product too and highly recommended.
Dr. Freud... please don't get me started on the coke addict .
I actually enjoyed psychology classes very much. Some seriously interesting stories from my professor who spent 30+ plus years working in a mental institution.
I should have asked him what he thought about a hobby where we purchase equipment often exceeding a cost of a luxury car to listen to music of composers who have been dead for centuries and neither them, not the musicians that brought us their music ever owned stuff like we do for "fidelity" reasons....
The "dead composer society"?
By the way, them Niners blow (honestly I have no idea if the 49ers are good or bad this year, I am a Baseball fan not a Football fan, just stirring the pot )
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This red wine tastes GREAT, I would award it 96 point because I am a professional wine taster. Wait, that wasn't fair, I know I confused white wine for red but I was blindfolded! (True story)
That violin that is playing is the Stradivarius, I know because I am a professional violin player and I can tell with my eyes closed. Oh wait, that wasn't fair, I was blind folded... (True story)
This cable sounds much better than all the rest. How so? I can hear it! Let's see how well you can pick it out. Oh wait, that wasn't fair... I was blindfolded... Yeah, we don't like our double blind tests, do we?
This footer, this rack, they just sound soooo much better! How so? Where and how does vibration come into play with electronic circuits and affect sound? Where is the science on that? But I can hear it! See the blindfolded part again...
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That is funny, and crazy when you realize that it actually happened!
But I woud like for us to get back on-topic...speaking of which, I just checked the UpTone Audio site, and they had sold almost 2000 units by October; I'm sure they're past that at this point. They mentioned they are selling them faster than they can get circuit boards in.
$1.3M in gross revenue for a single audio product in a single year for a small, 3-person company is a pretty good year.
What is even funnier is a few people getting together and pulling a fast one on international wine competition. People attending the show and judges themselves voted their water, vinegar and juice concoction with a fancy bottle label of a new company into 2nd place after a prestigious wine maker. It's human nature, intriguing labels and group confirmation bias really works.
I actually have a degree in Psychology, which is really weird for a computer programmer data guy .... I really thought that Freud was a lunatic though .
A Melco S100 is a good switch, but...it's 2200 bucks.
An UpTone Audio EtherREGEN is a much better value at almost 1/4 the price: $640. And you don't need to pop for an external linear power supply for it, either.
Don't get me started with ASR. They don't even do MSAs on their measurement system.
In fact, my guess is they wouldn't even know an MSA if it smacked them in the face.
Anyone doing meaurements without qualifying the measurement system with a statistically valid MSA cannot make any meaningful statements nor draw any meaningful or statistically valid interences about their measurements.
Has ASR ever done MS repeatibility validation? No.
Has ASR ever done MS reproducbility validation? No.
Has ASR ever done measurement system*operator variance analysis? No.
Has ASR ever done measurement system*part variance analysis? No.
Has ASR ever demonstrated smallest statistically effective measurement increment? No.
Gimme a break...I used to teach this stuff professionally...
Sorry, ASR has virtually no credibility from me. Those guys were biased about EtherREGEN and trashing it BEFORE it even shipped. Sorry, but that is NOT science. Real scientists don't bias themselves, and in particular, they don't bias themselves in the complete absence of data. I was scientist my entire professional career, and these guys give science a bad name.
The forthcoming Taiko Audio switch will probably be a winner. Ground up design all for sonics.
I wouldn't spend a nickel for some modified switch....
When you say, "no improvement", what measurement did HiFi Review do that showed "no improvement"? Do you have a link to the review, by any chance?
I'm curious if they measured the Melco for its ability to block high-source impedance leakage current and its impact on threshold jitter.
In fact, I'm doubtful they even have the metrology to measure high-source impedance leakage current and its impact on threshold jitter. AFAIK, the only person in the world that has this metrology is John Swenson. That's because he designed and built himself just to be able to do this analysis.
Neither do I have my audio traverse the network. All my files are sourced locally but the server is still connected to the network and sends/receives packet (for example Roon UI), however minimal they are. The good quality network switch still affects the sound quality but not as much if the audio had traversed. A good way to test is load an album or some tracks and listen with and without the network cable connected. The sound when the network cable is disconnected is the best your server can do.