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thats interesting - I remember Charles Hansen from Ayre found really clear words for one of the more known reviewers at Stereophile when this guy was promoting MQA.
It was a heated discussion in an open forum and some forum members wondered if Charles wanted to really risk the relation with newspapers. Sometimes it needs people who say „The Emperor has no new cloths“
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u252agz wrote: 2020-01-04 23:13 ...
A Netgear FS108 switch also killed the music and had to be immediately exchanged to the GS 108T.
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That’s interesting, but possibly also indicative of the randomness of digital. I actually prefer the FS108 I have over a GS108T that I tried instead. The earth connection on the FS108 is connected to the mains earth though. Maybe that is the reason I found it better or maybe something else? Imstead I use the GS108T inbetween the router and the FS108 though. It acts as a filter between the router and the hfif-part of the network where only a QNAP NAS and the DS resides. This set-up have been working well for a long time and it sounds excellent. I did not even bother to go down the rabbit hole of building my own NAS.
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It looks like I need to get my FS108 in from the garage tomorrow!
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Defender wrote: 2020-01-10 21:29 thats interesting - I remember Charles Hansen from Ayre found really clear words for one of the more known reviewers at Stereophile when this guy was promoting MQA.
It was a heated discussion in an open forum and some forum members wondered if Charles wanted to really risk the relation with newspapers. Sometimes it needs people who say „The Emperor has no new cloths“
I missed your post at the time. Charlie Hansen told me almost the same thing when I met him in NYC. He told me to ensure comparative listening between HiRes and red book flac files were based upon the same HiRes master. I took his advice and downsampled all HiRes files I had to red book. I couldn't hear any difference. Charlie told me that some unscrupulous HiFi dealers let someone hear the HiRes vs a red book CD or flac from a different master. He was a very determined character and very straightforward. He left us too early.
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The last time I met “uncle Chaz” he didn’t want to talk about HiFi. He just rubbed the top of my head and, with a glint in his eye, asked how my mum was.
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I never met him unfortunately but he always impressed me with his knowledge and his way to discuss things in forums openly.
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