Typical if you can't measure it differences can't exist arguments. And so, recently placed audiophile network switch between router and NAS, server. Sound quality decreased, router with lps feeding NAS and server superior. Rest of network chain post server optimized. Amir over at ASR recently measured audiophile network switches, virtually no measured performance difference. The assumption then is audiophile switches should sound the exact same as generic switch or no switch.
I'm not here to argue my particular audiophile switch or any audiophile switch will improve sound quality in my system. My results just the opposite, and my results are replicated by some other reviewers of various audiophile switches. I also see other reviewers agnostic and enthusiastic in regard to these switches.
So, I have no skin in the game at this point, highly skeptical. And yet, I heard a difference in sound quality. Would measurements predict this? As for placebo or confirmation bias, I certainly wanted this switch to be effective, I spent a fair amount of money, I'd heard the theoretical arguments as to their effectiveness, and yet I heard what I heard. Can the measurement brigade answer for this? Am I delusional in hearing a decrease in sound quality with switch, or am I delusional in hearing better sound quality with router feed?
Some of the measurement brigade may believe I or all of us cannot listen devoid of some measure of delusion, don't trust your senses which only betray, listen to the measurements. Expecting delivery of my highly specialized listening robot any day now, he/she will report sound quality evaluation that I can regard as objective truth.
I'm not here to argue my particular audiophile switch or any audiophile switch will improve sound quality in my system. My results just the opposite, and my results are replicated by some other reviewers of various audiophile switches. I also see other reviewers agnostic and enthusiastic in regard to these switches.
So, I have no skin in the game at this point, highly skeptical. And yet, I heard a difference in sound quality. Would measurements predict this? As for placebo or confirmation bias, I certainly wanted this switch to be effective, I spent a fair amount of money, I'd heard the theoretical arguments as to their effectiveness, and yet I heard what I heard. Can the measurement brigade answer for this? Am I delusional in hearing a decrease in sound quality with switch, or am I delusional in hearing better sound quality with router feed?
Some of the measurement brigade may believe I or all of us cannot listen devoid of some measure of delusion, don't trust your senses which only betray, listen to the measurements. Expecting delivery of my highly specialized listening robot any day now, he/she will report sound quality evaluation that I can regard as objective truth.