English Electric 8Switch

[NigelB]

@charlesphoto

I hope tit works out for you!

Now this thread really is diverted!

[Mike_S]

@charlesphoto

I hope tit works out for you!

Usually does

[Innocent_Bystander]

@Dave

Maybe a new thread?

It may be about how to make the switch sound better - or the music sound better without it. I noted that the thread title expanded earlier…

[Nick.Lees]

@Innocent_Bystander

@Dave

Maybe a new thread?

It may be about how to make the switch sound better - or the music sound better without it. I noted that the thread title expanded earlier…

I amended it to convey some sort of reality. Optical connection is certainly worthy of discussion - though I’d have thought its own thread would have been neater.

[MrUnderhill]

Hi Gerben,

I put this in place about three years ago, and tried various positions. I liked the theory. My memory is that I didn’t find it made any particular difference, but neither was it destructive - so I left it in place.

I do mean to play with this again, but work keeps intruding and when i do get time I would rather listen to music

M

[NigelB]

@MrUnderhill

when i do get time I would rather listen to music

How weird……

[JimDog]

@MrUnderhill

I put this in place about three years ago, and tried various positions.

What did you end up with?

[JimDog]

Do you think we should ask Richard to chop off the optical tail of this thread and use it to start an Optical Thread?

[MrUnderhill]

Hi Jim,

Hope this makes sense:

Modem > pfsense > Gigabit Switch > (powered from house ring) (Loft)
2960 > TPLink > TPlink > (Clean power supply) (Loft)
2960 > HiFi (Dedicated HiFi ring) (Living Room)

M

[Nick.Lees]

@JimDog

Do you think we should ask Richard to chop off the optical tail of this thread and use it to start an Optical Thread?

I did chat to him about it, but he thought it’d be too tricky. Hence my alteration to the title - otherwise people interested in an optical solution wouldn’t think to look here. I agree it’d be neater.

[Stephen_Tate]

@CrystalGipsy

True to form Stephen. Your yoying all the time is the reason I come back to threads like this as they are pretty dull otherwise.

I’m going to reorder the EE 8Switch. I’m just waiting for Paypal to put the money back into my account before i do. Keep things simple. I should of stuck with it but hey ho, yo yo!

[Richard.Dane]

Hard to know where to start or indeed where to end. It’s all inter-related though, so I’m minded to keep it as is.

Also, while moving one or two posts to another thread is fine, I’ve found recently that the forum software tends to choke when I try moving lots of posts.

I’m just happy it’s a reasonable and good natured discussion…

[CrystalGipsy]

Oh Stephen.

[ChrisSU]

FR has started a new thread if anyone is interested. Seems reasonable given that the EE switch can’t use fibre.

Can fiber improve vs lan cable

Continuing discussions about adding a fiber media converter, like Sonore , to audiophile switches, which began in the English Electric thread. Listening impressions on adding a media converter vs straight ethernet cable from a switch. Does it improve sound quality?

[charlesphoto]

Sorry, I feel as if I opened up this can of worms. I do think Richard is right though - they are all related. Just how much else is there to discuss on the EE switch as it is?

[Mike_S]

I have 2 EE8’s and didn’t even know it does optical, so I’m right confused.

But I do have an optical splitter…it’s not the EE8 though>…

[Mike_S]

@Stephen_Tate

I’m going to reorder the EE 8Switch

Oh my…

[james_n]

It doesn’t Mike, the EE is copper only. The thread drifted and there’s now another (!) thread on Fibre which I’m sure will come to the same conclusion…

Network fiddling continued

[Mike_S]

@james_n

there’s now another (!) thread on Fibre

Oh… I don’t have the energy for another cable thread.

[Pete_the_painter]

I’m still trying to comprehend the first.