So I've had an EtherRegen in rack for 2 weeks...

[mansr]

How does it perform as a switch? Throughput, latency, packet loss, etc.

[mansr]

3 minutes ago, plissken said:

Throughput was typical of a 100Mbit connection.

What about between the gigabit ports?

 

3 minutes ago, plissken said:

Pings where good and sub 1ms.

They'd better be. Between my machines, I get around 0.2 ms, and very little of that is due to switches. Going through one or two makes no measurable difference.

 

3 minutes ago, plissken said:

For the money I think it's a terrible value proposition.

We already knew that.

[mansr]

36 minutes ago, RickyV said:

The only one who qualified to make technical points about the eR is @JohnSwenson he made the right measurements and engineered accordingly.

Except he didn't make any measurements.

[mansr]

27 minutes ago, RickyV said:

That doesn't sound very plausible, engineering a switch and not making any measurements. 

Well, he keeps saying he doesn't have the equipment.

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

But I bet you have a guess 😁

Well, it might've been thin air, except Australia has a bit of a shortage of that these days. Must be another source, one that doesn't require sunlight.

[mansr]

There are two rules:

1. If you express scepticism about something, it is dismissed with "you can't know unless you try it."
2. If you do try it and find it wanting, you'll be told the test wasn't valid because the rest of your stuff isn't expensive enough.

The only winning move is not to play.

[mansr]

8 minutes ago, Superdad said:

allowing both the common-mode leakage and the upstream jitter/phase-noise to modulate the ground plane

Do you have those catchphrases bound to a keyboard macro or something?

[mansr]

2 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

"clocking moat" is another one, mansr

Does the clocking moat have clocking crocodiles (clockodiles?) devouring any jitters attempting to swim across?

[mansr]

19 minutes ago, m3lraaHnevetS said:

Therefor I suggested to Davide to stop trying and add users like Mansr, plissken and Ralf to his ignore list as probably many others have done. Am I not allowed to say this?

It's not very nice to jump into a thread and start suggesting that people put the OP on ignore. One might even call it thread crapping. You know, the very thing the loathsome "objectivists" are so often accused of.

[mansr]

11 minutes ago, Ralf11 said:

Plissken has done something worthwhile and valuable, while expending a lot more effort than someone who just buys and says gosh my confirmation bias sounds great!

He did what we're incessantly told to do: try it under the money-back guarantee. What did he get? Endless ridicule. No surprise there.

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, RickyV said:

I am sure you have heard about the blind test done by alpha audio? The eR was not one of the contenders but the sotm switch was. I can't find the link but there suppose to be a English version of it. What it proves is that these switches do something or not?

Do you have a link to the Dutch version? I can handle that.

[mansr]

4 hours ago, RickyV said:

Google: alpha audio switch test. You’ll get hits with that.

If you want me to read something, you should make it easy for me to find it. By posting a link, for instance.

 

4 hours ago, RickyV said:

Goede morgen, mansr heb je goed geslapen met al die wind en regel?

Yes, thanks for asking, and good morning to you too. It has indeed been windy lately, though my city rarely endures the worst of the bad weather. I can read Dutch to an extent, but I wouldn't attempt to write, let alone speak, it.

[mansr]

@Superdad, why don't you detail a system where the full benefit of the ER can be appreciated? What did you use for development testing (if you did any)?

[mansr]

Doesn't the I in FYI stand for information? I'm not sure that's what is offered there.

[mansr]

2 minutes ago, RickyV said:

Or “ one mansr’s meat is another mansr’s poison” 🤣😂

That would imply there's more than one of me. Are you sure you're ready for that?

[mansr]

3 minutes ago, Jud said:

Do we have any actual data on whether plissken's cable pulling posts now outnumber Alex's regarding digitally identical files sounding different?

And do Alex's files still sound different if the cable is pulled?

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, thyname said:

This whole thing had nothing to do with hearing or listening 😉😬

Right, it was all about tracking every forum plissken visits and accusing him of running some kind of hit squad.

[mansr]

3 minutes ago, plissken said:

If you could obtain actual wire speed you could transfer entire albums during silence between tracks 🙂

Make it fast enough, and you can transfer an entire album in the interval between two samples.

[mansr]

2 minutes ago, plissken said:

I don't know of anything that fast in the consumer commercial space.

I don't know of anything that fast anywhere. Transferring one hour's worth of music at CD quality in less than one sample interval would require a bandwidth of more than 200 Tbps.

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, plissken said:

https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/trans-atlantic/marea/marea-cable-system-reaches-200-tbps-of-capacity

Close.

[mansr]

Just now, Ralf11 said:

shouldn't you post in the snark forum?

No, he's a hard-line "subjectivist," so he can crap anywhere he wants.

[mansr]

27 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

The second report, asking about denigration of setups. This is something I've avoided as setups aren't people with feelings and it's a bridge too far for me to ban comments about setups. yes, some take it personal when their setup is attacked, but most of us get over it soon. It's only stuff.

You're missing the point. It's about people using the "you're system isn't resolving enough" attack, often with the implied or explicit addition that the person being attacked can't afford a "proper" system. It may be phrased in terms of someone's kit, but it really is an attack on the person.

[mansr]

26 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

OK, I'm supposed to read into those comments that someone is being poor shamed? It's impossible to tell if any of us is homeless or living in an ivory tower. I don't buy that this is poor shaming. 

Here's something I found with a quick search:

"Speaking of jealous, I sort of feel sorry for you. Your life seems so pathetic that all you can muster is complaints that someone has it easier than you. Sucks to be you I imagine. Maybe you should start a "go fund me" and perhaps if you really work it, collect enough funds for a new lolly pop?"