SOtM SNH 10g Ethernet Switch Review

justubes said:
Do you mean Alex from Uptone?

Yes, not to confuse things, i did have the analysis that a bnc cable connected to the MBS does noting in the sense for master clocking (keeping to topic), but the ground of whatever digital cable will have effects by way of improved grounding.

Just leaving the digital cable connected to the switch and ot connected on the other end also has effect on the total grounding of the system.

I feel this is not the way to approach this, as they are many other grounding solutions out there as opposed to letting customers spend on expensive clock cables and hearing an improvement due to improved grounding via whatever digital cable that is connected.
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Experiments could lead to this connection even to a preamp and possibly provide greater synergy in grounding architecture of the whole system that may provide a better improvement over the connection that they did.
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Alex is from Alma Audio. He is currently looking into 10 MHz clocking alternatives for SOtM switch. You can follow it on the WBF thread.

Ken
 
Mike said:
Any update on the Uptone switch?


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Mike,

I haven’t heard anything yet. They’re a great company and I’m very interested to see what they come up with. I’m not purchasing anything until all the evidence is in on both the switches and clocks. This area seems to be rapidly evolving.

Ken
 
It was much of a shame that the Msb Femto 33 's clock frequencies are not compatible to be used with a lot of other universal clocking requirements (so is DCS clocking system) which does not use 10Mhz.

The problem and issue arises when streaming different sampling rates, if 10Mhz is not used, specific clock frequencies for different base sampling rates will cause the dac or streamer not being able to output any sound.

For streaming, the clocking for equipment such as a switch at the source has proven to be the most obvious and important changes that will render any downstream equipment vastly improved or different based on selection of various clocking eco-system, that includes clocking cables which possibly might prove to have one of the biggest impact of all cabling within a system.
 
Mike said:
Any update on the Uptone switch?


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Latest post from Alex (UpTone) on Audiophile Style indicated two months remained as an estimated completion time. So July or August. Being summertime, I expect a September launch
 
thyname said:
Latest post from Alex (UpTone) on Audiophile Style indicated two months remained as an estimated completion time. So July or August. Being summertime, I expect a September launch
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Thanks.


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thyname said:
Latest post from Alex (UpTone) on Audiophile Style indicated two months remained as an estimated completion time. So July or August. Being summertime, I expect a September launch
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Thanks, it looks like we’ll have another audiophile switch to add to the mix in a few months.

Ken
 
This is a great discussion guys, I'm just catching up on the entire thread, but lots of good discussion here. I just spoke to Kamal at SOtM-USA today and discussed clock solutions for both the Switch and the SMS-200UltraNeo. The UltraNeo actually has 4 clock inputs on it. The Neo itself uses only two of the four, so this leaves two clock inputs free for connecting another device, such as...a switch. So, if you get a Neo, you can have either the (new) SOtM Ethernet switch use of one of the remaining two clock inputs on the Neo. Additionally, if you don't have the funds to pony up for the $800 SoTM Ethernet switch, you can also get their modded D-Link switch; modded with an input port to connect to one of the clock inputs on the Neo, so that you don't have to buy an extra clock for a the D-link Ethernet switch. Pretty cool!
 
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