English Electric 8Switch

I realise this is probably the wrong thread to compare the Buffalo to the Melco but comparing the externals, they appear to be very different.

For instance, if you look at the row of ports, the Melco seems to have 2 banks of 4 ports whereas the Buffalo has a continuous single bank of 8 ports. This would imply the 2 photos of the mother boards @frenchrooster posted, showing 2 banks of 4 ports on both switches, might not relate to this Buffalo switch.

Goodness, I need to get out more!

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The case work and isolation seems better with the Melco. And the Melco has Mundorph capacitors. And probably the power supply is better too.
However the Buffalo had received positive reviews elsewhere, so let’s wait now what Tim and Sibolotta will find.

But the Buffalo switch sbilotta is testing appears to be a different model to the Buffalo switch containing the board you posted comparing to the Melco. Sbilotta’s Buffalo switch has a single row of 8 ports whereas the Buffalo board you posted in the ‘LISTENING EXPERIENCE for linear ps and switches’ has two banks of 4 ports, a different switch I would say.

It’s the same from what I personally understood, just 8 ports vs 16.
Or I am wrong…

that is my understanding

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FR reread my above post and compare the photo sbilotta posted above of the Buffalo BS-GS 2008 8-port switch to the photo of the Buffalo (supposedly) 8-port switch board next to the Melco (supposedly) 8-port switch board you posted in the ‘LISTENING EXPERIENCE for linear ps and switches‘ thread. These appear to be two different models of Buffalo 8-port switch, judging by the different layout of the Buffalos’ 8 ports, unless I have misunderstood.

Maybe you, me and sbilotta should meet up, have a beer and enjoy the great outdoors!

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Ah OK, I can see where my mistake is. What I thought were 2 banks of 4 ports is in fact 2 banks of 8 ports. My bad.

The only thing I would say is the case of the Buffalo 16 port switch seems somewhat wider (beyond the ports) so might contain some more gubbins, possibly better isolation compared to the 8 port version.

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Now we have sorted that out, how about that beer chaps!

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Nigel, my EE switch was installed a few weeks ago and I’ve been supping beer since.

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Cheers - hic!

The question is which switch would compel me to consume most beer, the EE or the ER?

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Crikey…he,s bought an ER switch, know how he feels, over the moon😁

I think he is amused by how his equation has been misused and misquoted, as was I.

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Yes, didn’t spot the beer. As well as being a genius, he seems to be a cool dude to hang out with. Would have loved to have shared a beer with Albert and chat about the theory of relativity. I wonder if his theories might have developed the more beers he sank?

If I had to choose someone to share a beer with, from that time, I’d choose Paul Dirac. Probably even funnier after a beer or two :smile:
British btw!

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It is ein stein!

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Boom boom!

English Electric 8Switch audiophile network switch review by Hans Beekhuyzen:

Includes comparison of EE and ER.

At 6:50 mins he says: “I have concluded that using a linear power supply does degrade performance of switches slightly”.

He believes that ‘audio grade smps are a better match for binary electronics’.

So he uses the psu that came with each switch in his comparison with an AQ Diamond cable.

In Hans’ system, the EE improves on SQ vs a TP link switch, but the ER improves SQ a bit more.

This is true with each of 3 different streamers, inc an SOtM and Auralic G2.

Hans suggests at the end that the EE8 is better than the (cheaper) Bonn Silent Angel, which appears to have the exact same motherboard, perhaps because the EE8 has a more solid machined aluminium case and/or because it has a lower noise PSU.

Interesting stuff, particularly Hans’ conclusions that the ER is (just) superior (SQ) to the EE, that the improvement offered by an ‘audio grade’ switch is less as the quality of the streamer improves and that he prefers a AV domestic grade SMPS over both a medical grade SMPS and a LPS!

That last conclusion i.e. he prefers the right SMPS over a posh LPS, is quite surprising as many on here have found the opposite. I guess it does depend on which LPSs Hans is comparing the SMPSs to.

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