English Electric 8Switch

And Queen Victoria is dead.

So sorry for the loss. Hope you are OK.

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OK JimDog. I guess in your system the ‘loose bass’ must be inherent whereas my setup and experience indicates that the ‘thickness’ I heard was down to the generic cable upstream of the switch and it disappeared once I changed that for a better cable. The bass is now well defined, not loose or thick, with the CatSnake Cat6a cable in the final leg.

A vibrator is not silent like an angel , Jim.

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Not sure whether it was inherent, or not.

That was with different streamer, dac, preamp configuration and speakers to what I have now.

I recently tried the Catsnake 6a again in the final leg and it was ok, but still not as clean and crisp as BJC6a, which is what I have throughout the ethernet chain from the wall plug to streamer.

Then a week ago I removed my PoE 2960 switches and just plugged a single BJC 6a from router to ND5XS2 - and that sounds excellent too at the moment.

I am finalizing a new set up and will revisit switches and cables in the future when it all settles down.

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It is if you wear headphones!

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Oh no! Do you think that’s true! I’ll put a fiver on it :roll_eyes:

I’d bet on a power supply!

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I wonder if they’ll call it the English Electric Lightning…

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Definitely. It’s the way they roll :blush:

I think some people’s bass problems with the CatSnake are to do with whether their amplification/speakers can control it in their room

My setup is Uniti Atom with Chord Shawline cables for speakers, ethernet and electrical connection. The speakers are Elac Velas stand mount. I have found that high definition files streamed via Qobuz sounded “muddy”. I tried installing a Chord Shawilne Ethernet cable and noticed an immediate improvement, but not enough. But I assumed there was more to pick up here. So I ordered an English Electric switch and I noticed an immediate improvement. Qobuz High Resolution Files sounds like high resolution files should. I can really recommend the English Electric switch.

I live in Sweden just outside Stockholm. I have connected my house with 250 mbit fiber. It may also be the case that since Qobuz does not exist in Sweden, the stream can come from servers far away, which can cause some jitter, especially when it comes to large high res files. But this solved the English Electric switch as well

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I really struggle to understand how

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I have the same problem with Black Holes, despite listening very carefully to Brian Cox every now and again.

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While difficult, an explanation is at least presented.

Interesting issue! Same question here. :slight_smile:

I’ve just order my first (EE8) today before ordering the remaining 2 I’ll need. I’m extremely interested to see if it makes any difference.

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You plan on using 3 of them?

I have 3 switches in my network, would have thought it would defeat the purpose if I only had one. However to be honest I have no idea, all this networking/cables/switches thing confuses me completely.

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Ok, I understand now. Definitely start with the one 8Switch closest to your Streamer/Network audio device. I have a feeling that’s all you’ll need. I have 2 switches in my home network but I’ve never considered swamping out my Cisco 2960. My Cisco is used for general networking which it excels at and my new 8Switch is strictly for networked audio and its been phenomenal.

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