Network Switches

@atdavid I'm Keetakawee from Fidelizer. You know internet bring the worse things of mankind and I took my stance to fight those who try to ruin other people's hobby like them. However, I always treat my clients right and you will never see anyone being mistreated as a client.

This switch is what I developed for myself along with other possible products I decided to use it personally because it will lead to controversial if they get out to light. I bought a few audiophile switches before, trying some highend one along with other tweaks without success and EtherStream is too effective to keep in the dark. And they don't need to pay larger sum of money like $600-1500 USD.

To be fair, I found some network switch mods or audiophile built products making mediocre or subtle improvements over stock one too. I think it also depend on which network switch you try and with what device and application you play with.

If designer has good reference ears and can tell good quality from listening rather than just specsheet alone, he usually build something he can truly enjoy with his standards.

For those who never have any real experience before, they shouldn't assume too much. I'm also challenging network experts here in Thailand for testing switch in multimedia. Hopefully someone will join up.

Regards,
Keetakawee

@atdavid Thank you for your advice. About my product, I don't ever recall talking about it publicly except sharing that I launched a new product on that day and that's all. Aside from that, I'm sharing my opinions as fellow audiophile. I know some smart companies are using proxies to promote their goods but it's not my style though.

I don't consider myself as a business owner in audiophile market. Maybe that'd be my weakness but I'm glad I still have clients who understand my nature and support me regardless. I'm trying to overcome this shortcoming and get over it soon.

Well, networked audio is a new territory to audiophiles and not many people are well informed about it. Imperfections are often hidden in the dark like 10G promoting end to end verification to improve transmission for the first time and no one said anything about this issue so far.

Regards,
Keetakawee

Well, allow me to introduce myself first. I'm a passionate audiophile who use high quality digital sources like Esoteric/Emm Labs/etc. When playing file from server couldn't match the quality of flagship CD transport, I developed my own solution that could be considered very close and satisfying enough for me to enjoy.

Then I signed up for Tidal streaming CD quality, it was a disappointment comparing to tracks I ripped from CD with Plextor Premium2 drive. Many of my highend audiophile friends and vendors also told me in private that Tidal sounds unacceptable for highend systems. They also sell and use with other servers too not just my products.

So, I spent years searching for promising solution to cure network inferiority hoping I can enjoy Tidal streaming with my systems. I couldn't find one that I can truly enjoy with. They usually sound more cleaner or more spatial with richer ambient or more quiet but couldn't get solid dynamics and coherent sound that can deliver good deep and tight bass with good control and expand.

Well, at least my recent product is good enough for me to deliver missing aspects and my friend who used to complain about Tidal now say he can enjoy Tidal in serious highend system even with airplay. Some also said it's like playing from hard drive directly. So I get satisfying results now.

I think having a good reference to compare will make evaluation of our systems being more rational. Going streaming only is also fine. I'm just curious if there's anyone else comparing between streaming and good quality local playback to notice the difference.

Regards,
Keetakawee

Have anyone compared between local file playback and streaming media?