Popular Post yellowblue Posted March 2, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2020 I got my ER with the second batch in january. I conclude with what others are saying that the ER is a worthwhile upgrade and I am not the right person to describe how it sounds. But there are some interesting points from my perspective after using the ER for around 400 hours. When I listened to the ER for the first 50 hours I honestely thought my system would sound better without the switch. For me it was a little flat sounding - maybe even a little fatiguing. First after 80-90 hours I could hear all the benefits described in this thread - still improving until 150 hours. For me burn in was really important (and I think it was not just brain burn in). The effect of using the ER was that my system sounded a little more fatiguing even after burn in. There was more detail and more treble. The ER was just showing up the weaknesses of my system. I had to change my cheap BNC-cables between the M-Scaler and the DAVE and even Ethernet cables. I bought Sablon cables and now everything sounds even better without fatigue. I am glad to hear improvements using the Zenith SE (Router > ER > Zenith SE > MScaler > Chord DAVE). This was not clear before because the Zenith itself has an extensive treatment of the ethernet signal and it not always works so well with other switches. I was using the ER with a LPS 1.2, but after reading Romaz test on "Mono and Stereo" I tried the the supplied Power supply instead and I couldn´t detect any difference. That´s a good thing because the LPS 1.2 got really hot with the ER. Roy (Romaz) supposes that the LPS 1.2 is no good option because the switch draws too much current. He recommends the JS-2 or the new Paul Hynes SR4 turbo. Romaz recommends even to use the A-side instead of the B-side or even better to use the fiber port with special SFP transceivers. I tried both options. I can understand what Roys point is - maybe the A-side sounds a bit more musical. But I found the B-side to be cleaner and clearer and stayed with it. Unfortunately my transceivers didn´t work so I couldn´t check the other option. But we may have to ask Romaz if his ER was fully burnt in. For I really could conclude with him - just at the time I had used the ER for 50 hours. But as I said - after that things changed quiet dramatically with the ER. Superdad, kennyb123, Crustacean and 2 others 2 2 1 Link to comment
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