Qutest, Hugo TT2, Mscaler

True… I tend to measure power supplies I use now. The Uptone LPS1.2 is bang on stated voltage but it’s not unusual to see 0.5 - 0.8v over the stated amount on other supplies which can cause problems. I still use the supplied power brick for the TT2 though.

Agreed, it’s a hobby and we all enjoy it our own way. As long as we enjoy the music it’s all good

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I know, suspect they don’t want loads of returns because poor supplies have been used. The question is whether using a good one gives an improvement. I believe it does as do many others but I do so at my own risk

At least in the early days of SMPSs it was not unknown for them to fail, and in so doing put a high voltage across the output, unlike linear PSs, and reliability was much poorer to boot. This made them riskier to use with sensitive gear. Whether that still holds true with modern designs I have no idea, but if it does then it might well be a consideration…

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To be fair the same could happen even with a supply that came with the device. All you can do, if you’re going to use a linear supply, isndo your research and buy from a supplier you trust. MCRU are well known, British and build specifically for the TT 2 and MScaler

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Ubiquiti is pretty plug and play. Hopefully you have worked out you don’t really need VLANs in a home network if you are running a single subnet… which is I guess what 99.9% of people do… and also many home audio streaming products don’t route across networks.

You are right there is a lot of information on the web, but there is also a lot of rubbish. Always best getting proper documentation or official tutoring information if wanting to properly understand these things and why and when you would use them and what the impact is of using them.

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Thanks… I’ll look into subnet. I got it setup to communicate across vlans for certain servers while blocking all other access. I needed Apple TV hub and Roon to be available to all vlans for HomeKit duties etc but wanted to hide work networks and Stop access from IoT to all. Some firewall rules sorted it out.

Edit. Forgot to say… I was using the UniFi user groups. Sure they were part of Ubiquity but I’ll check.

Edit2. Yeah, ubiquity community forum with a guide on how to isolate and secure IoT and other networks. I currently have 4 subnets one for each area.

I wouldn’t bother … because unless you have many cascaded switches running trunking interfaces there is no advantage and just overhead.
You really want to have items in the same broadcast domain, which means the same network.
Sure if you have hundreds and hundreds of devices you may want to separate into separate networks to reduce network overheads from ARP etc.
These days we tend to use multicast group addresses to identify devices within the same unicast subnet…

VLANs themselves are just ways of sending frames associated with different networks at layer 2,… usually by using 802.1q tagging.

Ok then, so I’ve got it wrong. It is working though thanks to the manufactures community forum so I’ll just keep it as is for now.

Yeah no worries… keep it simple. You only use VLANs for specific cases, but easy to set up, it just adds un necessary complexity… sort of playing with technology for the sake of it.
Just be careful with routing across subnets, as with some apps and protocols that are designed for a single subnet operation you need special consideration, such as helpers and forwarders… or special protocol support. SSDP is a good example.

As I say best rip it out, keep it simple, and operate in a single subnet / broadcast domain for maximum interoperability, simplicity, and ease of use with consumer apps and services.

Haha… na you’re ok. All the wired home automation hubs, burglar & smoke alarms and work vpn’s are communicating together nicely at the moment with both wired and wireless devices so they can stay as they are.

A work vpn obviously has its own tunnel over your base/ default subnet, so you don’t need a VLAN for that, as it already kind of has one … unless you are terminating your VPN onto a router and map that association into a subnet for multiple devices to use that vpn subnet on that vlan. Further if you are using Microsoft Teams/o365etc… it’s really designed to sit in your core subnet and tunnel over it…however your default subnet is where you have your printer and other local resources, by using client managed local managed routing, your client can talk to your base subnet or the remote tunnel.
These days segmentation is often done differently rather than rely on VLANs which is kind of an old fashioned approach.
If you are happy yes, but for others reading, best keep everything in a single subnet unless there is good reason not to, such as managing diverse access routing and resilience across a complex setup, such as a system of proxies etc where you are limited on physical ports on routers etc.

My wife’s firm completed the VPN setup isolated on it’s own vLAN. Can’t take credit for that. They always struggled to get it to work consistently before for some reason… no idea why.

Edit. I think it’s best to call time on this and return to all things Chord. It’s starting to feel like a grilling when ultimately all I’m doing is securing my home network as documented on the manufactures support forum.

Sure, but that has almost NOTHING to do with VLANs … kind of my point… it’s easy to plug and play and add complexity for no real reason… but as long as you are happy. It’s the same philosophy with my chord audio system, keep it simple and it works best, but there is all sorts of configurations I can operate it in…

Perhaps a bit of emotion in my reply, and if so I apologise, but in my professional world over the last month I have been taxed by unnecessary technology configurations and issues derived from them, just because at one time one could… I can’t say what systems they were effecting… but one might be shocked in the UK if one knew.

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So here’s some bits. I called US importer for the Sbooster and was steered away from one for my Qutest? Interesting maybe out of stock had some bad experiences, who knows,

On the more fun front I’ve got an order in for a Black Mscaler. And I’ve ordered a pair of Audience Audio AU24-SX S/PDIF cables with BNC’s to run between from Scaler to Dac. Hope to have it all up and running next week!!!

Enjoy the new Mscaler, it should give a real nice boost to your Qutest.
Yesterday I added an ND5XS2 to my Mscaler/TT2, and I really am glad I chose this over another brand. First off, it all works seamlessly in the Naim App…I have no interest in Roon.
Next would be the looks, and fit…I really like the old style box, with no screen, and it sits perfectly on my Fraim.
Third, the sound…definitely an improvement over the Laptop I had been using. I was using my DC1 cable out of my Core, but now the Core is only connected with Ethernet, and the DC1 cable was inserted between the ND5XS2 and Mscaler.
What is really an added bonus for me is the new HD radio channels available, they sound great now.
I plan on moving my Nagra integrated to the top shelf of the Fraim, and reorganizing all the components on it, but for now the ND5 is sitting on the top shelf.

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Thanks for looking out for my cash. So what should I do , sell my G1 off and get a laptop?
Because Rob Watts uses one?

NAGRA :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
Always fancied a bit of Nagra but never had the opportunity.

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Sell the G1 and buy an Mscaler

It’s an Aries G1, it is a streamer. What would I replace it with?