JCAT's $5000 switch

[ChrisG]

Ok folks, let her rip!  https://jcat.eu/featured/m12-switch-gold/ 

[rickca]

OMG 4165 euros.  I thought it was a joke, but apparently not.  It just says the included power supply is medical grade.  Is it a SMPS?

[ChrisG]

It better be medical grade, 'cause I has a heart attack when I saw the price! 

[mozes]

No comment! Obviously I am not the target audience.

[One and a half]

Audio only requires 100Mb/s speed. Therefore the price can come down by a decimal, and that’s a little more reasonable.

Love the connectors. The end price is totally unrealistic and bring your own power. 

 

Hint: bring the price down to a tenth of what it is now, and there could be more sales than you can imagine.

[ChrisG]

Agreed. I was thinking "OK, this prolly costs around $500, I might bite", but then I saw the price and said "no effing way!" 

 

It's funny that, even for all this coin, you have to pay extra if you want more than 2 cables. 

[Solid-State]

https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Phoenix-Contact/2700200/?qs=sGAEpiMZZMu3sxpa5v1qrkZLRvYYVcHGDlqcf%2bY6bu0=

[MetalNuts]

Would like to know any audiophile here has bought this.

[diecaster]

While audio may need only 100Mb/s, I want 1000mB/s. Also, Those M12 connectors have their place and inside the standard home is not it. Hell, You hardly ever see those connectors in data centers with hundreds of thousands switch ports. Do you have a high vibration environment? Then yes, use them because that is where they make sense.

 

This is just a way to grab more money from the rich audiofool that knows no better..... 

[yamamoto2002]

It is originally designed to install outdoors and it is waterproof so it will continue to work when your audio room is inundated above the floor level. It is nice to have feature for most audiophiles

[Marcin_gps]

You wouldn't be laughing if any of you heard what this switch is doing to the sound. Anyone who's serious about hi-fi uses power cords and power conditioners costing more than the switch. And the switch offers similar if not greater improvement. 

 

[firedog]

4 minutes ago, Marcin_gps said:

 Anyone who's serious about hi-fi uses power cords and power conditioners costing more than the switch. And the switch offers similar if not greater improvement. 

 

Anyone? I don't think every "serious" audiophile has conditioners and power cords costing more than $5K. 

But the people who will buy this switch probably do, I'll give you that.

[bambadoo]

Behold - S-ATA cable from the same folks. 

Directional S-ATA. 

[Marcin_gps]

Well, that's not exactly a news story: I've been offering SATA cables under JCAT since 2013

[One and a half]

56 minutes ago, Marcin_gps said:

You wouldn't be laughing if any of you heard what this switch is doing to the sound. Anyone who's serious about hi-fi uses power cords and power conditioners costing more than the switch. And the switch offers similar if not greater improvement. 

 

We are laughing at the price since it is not commensurate with our wallets and a guessed price which is common in our thoughts. 

Do you want to sell 10 units a year or 100 units a month? Up to you. The market is open.

 

Power conditioning works with ancient transformers. Nothing comes close.

[Marcin_gps]

I'm only interested in best products. 

[mansr]

43 minutes ago, Odd Magnus Bjerkvik said:

Behold - S-ATA cable from the same folks. 

Directional S-ATA. 

Should it be installed the other way around when writing the music files to the disk?

[Solid-State]

1 hour ago, mansr said:

Should it be installed the other way around when writing the music files to the disk?

NO!,

 

[rickca]

Here's another product for people with tons of money.  It's over $90K.  

https://www.lessloss.com/laminar-streamer-sd-player-p-207.html

[Kal Rubinson]

17 minutes ago, rickca said:

Here's another product for people with tons of money.  It's over $90K.  

https://www.lessloss.com/laminar-streamer-sd-player-p-207.html

It does this:  "The Laminar Streamer will be compatible with any sound file which ends in either .wav or .aiff" 

[plissken]

3 hours ago, Marcin_gps said:

You wouldn't be laughing if any of you heard what this switch is doing to the sound. Anyone who's serious about hi-fi uses power cords and power conditioners costing more than the switch. And the switch offers similar if not greater improvement. 

 

 

I'm afraid of what your switch is doing to the sound.

[plissken]

3 hours ago, Marcin_gps said:

You wouldn't be laughing if any of you heard what this switch is doing to the sound. Anyone who's serious about hi-fi uses power cords and power conditioners costing more than the switch. And the switch offers similar if not greater improvement. 

 

 

So when I use your switch and I disconnect the Ethernet cable and the music still plays, what has your switch done?

 

How does your switch improve the sound that is in cache? How does your switch outperform fiber media?

[ChrisG]

2 hours ago, rickca said:

Here's another product for people with tons of money.  It's over $90K.  

https://www.lessloss.com/laminar-streamer-sd-player-p-207.html

If we can get 2 more people on board besides us, we can all get 10% off. #suchadeal

[Marcin_gps]

43 minutes ago, plissken said:

 

So when I use your switch and I disconnect the Ethernet cable and the music still plays, what has your switch done?

 

How does your switch improve the sound that is in cache? How does your switch outperform fiber media?

It has already improved sound if the music is in a CPU/memory cache on a PC/network player. Then try playing again without the switch and music will sound thin, flat and edgy - a characteristic that people most often complain about in a computer audio playback. 

 

Fiber media doesn't improve sound. It actually sounds worse than electrical connection - either LAN or USB. I've tried it years ago already. 

[diecaster]

Does the switch have audio-grade caps too?