I kept the Cisco for heavy lifting for the house and a single connection for the EE8.
There might be sonic benefits from ditching the Cisco, but 1) To be brutally honest I couldn’t be arsed and 2) Experiments with cabling et.al have me firmly in the “last leg is sonically better leg”.
Not old enough ( 54). I am not in the priority criterias for now. Here in France vaccinations are very slow evolving. Only 1,3 millions people vaccinated for now. ( for 67 millions people).
Maybe this summer. End of spring.
In this case is better to be a small country you get vaccinations faster ,now people around 35 years starting to get vaccinations.never mind for you …stay home as you can with your lovely equipment and your music collection …and everything will be fine
Funny I don’t think my system would sound anywhere near as good as it does now if it wasn’t for spending so much time at home due to the global pandemic.
BTW how does your Epic Ethernet cable pair with the EE 8Switch?
Epic Ethernet cable is my second ethernet cable from Melco to EE8 as a lan …the main one is Sarum T from Melco to Nd555 i think its good enough didnt test others but i think there are always betters in the market
I have an EE8 since yesterday, installed it right before the streamer (optical router—>10 meters of cat6–>wall socket—>supplied Chord cable—>EE8–>AQ vodka 1.5m—>ND555) and couldn’t hear much difference. Slightly better than with the netgear Switch in place of the EE8, but that was all. Rather puzzled and starting to feel disappointed…
Then Halleluiah ! I read @Thomas and @jsaudio exchange on this thread and realised I should try to put the EE8 right after the optical router and before the 10 meters of cat6 and vodka to ND555 (with a number of other devices ethernet cables plugged in), Man, what a difference ! Everything improved nicely, that was the wow moment. Could it be that having all the other devices plugged in the EE8 is what made the difference (by suppressing noise from those) as opposed to having only the ND555 plugged in ?
I have my 8Switch connected to the router and my ND555, Roon Nucleus and NAS connected to the output of the 8Switch.
You want the 8Switch connected directly to the ND555.
Sorry but thats just a load of old tosh and unsubstantied. They obsesion on this forum for this mythical noise that effects all things audio is bordering on the fanatical. I disconnected all of my kit from my switch to test this theory. Zero difference.