English Electric 8Switch

I’ll stand up for McGonagall to be in the poet’s hall of fame, so you’re in good company. The man has me in stitches :slight_smile:

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Did you buy that AT switch new recently?

That’s a relief as this is some of my best stuff!

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The AT switch on my main system was an old one I had from when I set up my home office some 15 years ago. The AT switch in my media room is new from last year.

15 years ago, thought you would have been at uni.

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I’m a young 54. But trapped between the awkward stage of being in the same career for 32 years, thinking I’m a bit “over it” and dreaming of early retirement but not quite there. At least I pretty much have the hi-fi sorted :sunglasses:

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Same here Mike. 54 too. Since quite 2 months. And already thinking on retirement.

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Thoroughly recommend the hifi and retirement, i retired at 55…was lucky they offered me a package to leave. Don’t like disappointing people, so i left😁

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Perhaps Naim are missing an opportunity here… Fraim Mini?

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I’m self employed, so it will involve an offer to myself in order to avoid disappointment :flushed::flushed::flushed:

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Better make sure it’s a really good offer Mike !

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So how many folks have tested the EE v the ER?

Really nobody ?

I returned the ER since it didn’t do much in my system. I am keeping the EE and might even get a second one. However YMMV - it depends on the kind of issues you have with networking and which switch solves them.

I have bought EE 8switch blindly. I was not in that position to compare EE and ER switches side by side. Imho most of dealers are not prepared to demonstrate switches relative to each other at least in this country. Most of us need only one switch so I have opted for EE mainly because it was easier to get and I assumed Naim and Chord could work together in some synargy. Let me say that I was not dissapointed with my purchase. EE freed me some nastiness (glare/harshness) which was sometimes present in the sound with my former Cisco switch and its linear PSU (Sbooster). So EE seems a kind of fit and forget gadget for me. Incidentally, after accustomed the ‘new sound’ with EE I have pulled out the ethernet cable (Meicord) from the back of my NDS and tried to play some of my favourite tracks directly from a good quality USB stick. I was not surprised: music from USB sounds still ‘better’ . Maybe second generation streamers differ in this respect.
I tought I would share my experience.

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Okay, I’m after a bit of guidance on the EE switch. I’ve got a birthday coming up and I may take advantage to get an EE switch to improve my NDS / QNAP combo.
Firstly, a little bit about the current setup:
A 10-15m ethernet cable snakes round my lounge from the router. Under the TV I have a basic Netgear switch from which I have cables going to the TV, an Apple TV, the DVD/HDD recorder, the QNAP NAS and my NDS. The NDS is located with the rest of the hifi off to the right of the TV.
I reckon I have four options:

  1. Don’t bother with the EE, it’ll add nothing
  2. Replace the Netgear switch with the EE and plug everything into it
  3. Hang the EE off the Netgear and plug my NDS and QNAP into it
  4. Hand the EE off the Netgear and plug only my NDS into it

My listening is probably split as 67% from the local stuff on the NAS and 33% through Tidal.
Any thoughts on which option would deliver the best outcome?

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I’ve gone option 2 on my system, simply to get the best for all media.

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I’d compare 2 & 3, but expect little if any difference!

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Option 2 here. I am trying to keep things sinple.

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There could be an option 5, which is replace the Cisco with EE, plug just the NDS & QNAP into the EE and plug all the other (noisy?) stuff into the router.