Hi everybody ! As a person who is considering to buy the Electric switch , I would like to share my small experience with ethernet stuff in my system, maybe it will be of some use to someone.
This is my system:
Intel nuc running roon Rock( zerozone LPS) —> wireworld starlight cat 8 —>tplink modem/switch( zero zone LPS) —>Wireworld starlight cat 8 ----> Sotm sms 200 ultra neo( Paul hynes SR 4 ) —>Curious usb —> uptone Iso regen( uptone lps 1.2 )—> Chord qutest dac —> Rca vovox Vocalis —> Rega brio 2017 ----> Proac tablette 10
Initially I bought a Supra ethernet cat 8 and a Wireworld chroma cat 8 with no expectations at all. I thought in respect of USB cables many people said it was just 01010 and it couldn’t possibly do any difference and yet, it did - a subtantial one with a curious USB cable ( I know it’s subjective, but for me it’s difficult to have an open mind towards people who say that cannot hear any difference, I thought it was a quite obvious improvement to hear. Anyway, I must have special ears ). Like I was saying, I thought maybe ethernet cables will do a difference as well despite some people say - it couldn’t possibly do any difference.
First I tried the supra ethernet cable - No difference whatsoever , I thought this is a waste of time… contrary to usb cables - ethernet cable don’t do any difference( although I haven’t done any burn in , maybe it does get better ).
Then I tried the wireworld , this time complety convinced it wouldn’t improve anything - I started listening and from upset mood , my face started to smile - I was like …WHAT??? I must be tired… a noticeable much better separation of instruments appeared, a much more silent background was present, more depth …more everything… I would say the improvement was almost as big as the USB improvent ( not quite the same, but almost ) . So again, same experience: It couldn’t possible do any difference and yet it did…
After that I bought 2 wireworld starlight cat 8 for half of the price , this time I haven’t smile as much as the first time. Still, it was an improvement , I would say the chroma give me 80% of what I obtain with the starlight.
My next ponderation was - having a LPS on my tplink modem/switch, I thought… I’m losing my marbles . It turns out, I wasn’t . More silence background again, and more lifelike sound was achieved.
Much more happy with my system using wireworld ethernet cables and lps on my tp link modem/switch , I started to fancy a proper switch . This time much more confident that I would have good results than I was before. Checking audiophile forums ( dismissing any " no believer" ) . I saw the mentions of SOTM, Silent Angel , AQVOX , and the Cisco cisco 2960 8tc ( everybody was happy with this one , and the best of all I could buy it for less than 100 ).
I bought the Cisco 2960 8tc ( I tried three different power cables - Wireworld Aurora and stratus and Vovox textura ) - Unfortunately there was no smile this time… in one hand - there was a bigger sound stage , more meat to the bones on the other hand - the PRAT was completely wrong and I felt the background was much more noisy ( I thought what people are ON about? ). I didn’t like it at all… I don’t know if it was synergy, I just didn’t like it.
Presently , I’m looking at the English electric swich reports and above all the synergy with the wireworld ethernet cables.
Sorry for my English , and all the best for everyone in this strange times.