EtherRegen vs EE?

Well one day on and the price has gone up to £660 from yesterdays £640 does not seem very professional to me?
Interesting i just looked again, now £665… i wonder if they are using some sort of software that prices versus number of views…not good at all.

I would guess that the price is dependant on the exchange rate. Depends if they bought forward on the dollar or not I guess. I would give them a call and ask. The guy will talk for England and explain why I am sure! Having used their website I doubt they have software that raises the price :smile: They do sell a lot and are often out or close to being out of stock so dropping the price does not make much sense anyway!

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Anybody here tried audition in his home this one! comparing EE…ERimage|375x500

I think a couple of forum members have the Melco switch, but at over £2k, it is expensive. My dealer has said it really comes on song with a decent power supply…that gets you to nearer £3k. I have read a review where the reviewer marginally preferred the Melco to the Etherregen, but it is considerably less expensive hence it gets a lot more discussion.

I didn’t like the Melco at all, both with it’s own PSU and a big Sean Jacobs DC 3+

I’ve written about in greater detail somewhere on the forum which a search should throw up.

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Cannot beat first hand listening👍

By contrast, I was immediately smitten by the Melco, but I haven’t tried the Etheregen.
I have not felt the urge (yet) to experiment with power supplies, but I’m working my way through a whole new music collection.

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I found it had some nice smooth/bloom effects but lost significant instrumental texture/tonal accuracy and some PRaT into the bargain

So is there an observable trend among the outcomes here placing one higher than the other wrt ER v EE? Or is it a scatter plot like the boutique streaming cable population of outcomes? :smiley:

I don’t agree at all. Smooth/Bloom etc is far from my experience. In my system, the Melco switch is a major improvement. Currently listening to ‘The Best of The Kinks’ as I’ve never heard it before .
If you can borrow a S100, do so. Otherwise go to a dealer and get them to demo. You won’t be in any doubt. You’ll just have to decide if it is value for money for you…

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Sorry, my reply was aimed at the forum generally. I wasn’t trying to change your mind.

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Don’t worry: I didn’t take it like that! :slight_smile: As always with these things, system, room and musical preferences always play a role in this. We always need to audition anything for that reason whenever possible and support the dealers who enable us to do so.

Realism of timbre in classical instruments is a bugbear of mine and that is where I found the noise shaping of the Melco particularly deficient in my system.

I would therefore, like you, strongly recommend a good try before one buys and in one’s own system (fortunately the lockdown has increased dealer willingness to offer this), comparing the Melco with the considerably cheaper EtherRegen (which I much prefer) and English Electric (which I haven’t heard).

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Just curious if you hear any differences with the ER? I already tried it but I think not.
Cheers,
Brian

I posted my first thoughts here :
–> One step forward: ER +lpsu

Interesting topic almost asking to the Ethernet cable saga.
Oddly Uptone themselves say no benefit in better LPS even their own.

Maybe its all more noise shaping (i.e. expensive tone controls.

Use of a fancy linear power supply (such as our matching UltraCap LPS-1.2) is NOT required to get outstanding performance from the EtherREGEN. While high-quality power supplies make a nice difference most everywhere else in a music system, we personally are not hearing very much change with power supplies and the EtherREGEN (certainly owing to its great isolation and internal power networks). Yet others do report some benefit, so you are of course welcome to experiment within the +DC 7~12V range. [Note: The original UltraCap LPS-1, with top setting of 7V, does not have enough current for the EtherREGEN. The UltraCap LPS-1.2, with its 9V and 12V settings can easily power an EtherREGEN.]

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So was this moving from all copper ethernet to copper with a short optical link - as well as adding the ER?

So the changes are down to those 2 factors, not just the ER itself?

I only the tried the following setup (with brilliant results!)

Roon Server----Cisco_3560—(5 meters fiber)— EtherRegen—ND555

Using the Cisco’s SFP port made sense.

It completely electrically decouples the de ND555 from the rest of the network.

I didn’t try using Ethernet cable between the Cisco and the ER.

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Hi,
I have just posted a similar question in a.n.other thread prior to browsing this one, but it maybe more relevant here…
I would like to try ‘stacking’ a cisco 2960 before my EtheRegen via SFP, but lack the technical expertise to choose a suitable pair of 'cisco compatible" modules (LC multimode)
Any recommendations gratefully received…

mark (frojo)

@Thomas just put in a fibre link between his Cisco and his ER switch and is v pleased with it.

If you search his profile you may find the post under Activity.

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Hi Nigel

I have not mentioned this before but when I’d had the ER for about 3 weeks I compared it to just connecting direct from router to 272.

The SQ difference was minimal.

At that time I had my 2 PoE Ciscos up for sale.

So I got them out again and preferred them to any other combination of switches.

So I returned the ER and never got to hear it with an LPS.

Partly this is a testament to how good the Cisco are in PoE configuration.

(Also I realised that ER/LPS was going to severely dent my ability to get X72 when it finally comes along.)

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