Yes, thank you, I agree.
I’m sure if we meet, our love for hi fi would be a great common ground rather than the facelessness of the web. I’ve had a new friend around today for some system fun and tweaking. It’s a great distraction for the stress we are both under currently.
Great guys, its all about the music and those bloody boxes that keep many of us entertained…now back to the thread anyone bought one of these switches recently?
As previously posted mine was installed about a month ago replacing a Netgear switch and in my room/system it is a no brainier, an excellent value for money upgrade.
Hello All,
Infrequent poster but longtime lurker. A few days off work this week led me to read the Switches Mania thread from start to finish. As some of you will know, that is where madness lies!
As someone that has had kind assistance from experienced members on here, I have formed a view on those whose observations and attitudes to the hobby seem to align with mine.
So I took the plunge yesterday and ordered an Eastern Electric 8Switch and a Chord Shawline streaming cable (totally sight unseen) . I will be replacing an extremely cheap D-Link 4 port switch and no-name internet patch cord. Looking forward to seeing if it makes a difference. I will post my thoughts after some considered listening.
My setup at present is Synology DS213+>D-Link Switch>Wall plate>Cat 5a cable>Wall plate>D-Link switch>Bryston BDP-2>PS Audio Directstream DAC
The Bryston and PS Audio are replacing an ND5XS now moved to a second system.
If it does not make any audible difference to me, at least they both look nicer than what they are replacing 
Regards,
Chris
The EE comes with a ‘free’ 0.75m Chord C Stream. Bearing in mind that a 0.75m Shawline costs £200 you might be wise to start with the C Stream. For what it’s worth I’m using BJC which I think is about £30 for 3m and which to me sounds better than a £300 cable that preceded it.
are you keeping the english electric?
Certainly keeping us guessing.
he’s waiting on confirmation of his commission from chord
Yes. Going to run the C Stream from the wall plate to the EE and the Shawline to the streamer.
well I will decide once @anon4489532 gives his feedback
Perhaps hard to admit it’s better 
. Just teasing.
Wow…you must’ve been bored! 
Bit like reading Mills and Boon, you don’t want to admit reading it, but many of us have read the thread.
A guilty secret.
I’ll be interested in what Nigel’s got to say about the EE. Very happy with mine and it’s in line with the Cisco. I like what the Cisco does in my particular system and the EE doesn’t add or detract from this. Add in the small footprint and the neat case work and it doesn’t look out of place in the lounge on the Hi-Fi rack.
I think that’s a more appropriate name for this particular product. English Electric doesn’t seem quite right.
If it’s got a chord badge it’s an English product ?
Well it’s certainly not hand made in Wiltshire.
No, I think he’s listening to his own experience. If the EE is new it may take a while to settle and burn in. And then it may initially present a difference that impresses on certain tracks/types of music/recordings but not on others, so he wants to gain a clear overall impression gauging how he responds to a whole variety of music he knows well, rather than just voicing impressions of a “lower noise floor” or whatever.
In which case I entirely agre with him, since it’s what I do.
But then I could have misunderstood 
That’s the one thing I don’t like about my ERs…
Mike, you are inside my mind… spot on.
but the muso isn’t either.
And neither are iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks.
The question is did chord design it the way Naim and apple design their products (to deserve the Chord Cables badge on it)
But then it isn’t a chord product … just English Electric? it doesn’t say Chord on the switch, now does it?
I do like the idea of reducing noise, but also the group broadcast issues that the cisco solves makes sense to me also.
Pity that the english electric is quite expensive for what it is.
Chord has been making mega expensive cables for a while now (which I refuse to buy as they just don’t perform the way I want - which Vertere and Superlumina do)