I had the DLink switch in house, tested it against Cisco2960, Melco S100, Innuos and Ansuz A3 and D3.
There is 100% NO comparison. Even the A3 does sound different from D3 and they use same engine!
Interestingly, if you simply replace the brick (SMPS) power supply that came with your router with a good linear power supply, you will love what you will hear.
I believe it. Both my ISP switches had an internal power supply, so that’s not doable, but I am pretty sure that one of the issues (if not the main one) with the old switch was a noisy PS.
Hey, FWIW, I have the D’Agostino Momentum series with an Apex Rossini and clock. I have tested the Ansuz D2 in my system for about 1-2 weeks and definitely made a clear difference.
It’s not the one that I currently have (I use Taiko Router and Taiko Switch) but there was no question it had a very different presentation versus other switches that I’ve used. If you can demo it, that would be best, but I did enjoy the sound with my setup.
Speakers are Wilson and cables are Nordost.
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I second that. That’s one of the highlights in my lectures: never trust an AI with something important because AI’s are good at putting a nice ribbon around an ugly lie and make it seem true.
I also had a couple questions that immediately triggered answers that sounded great but were in fact spectacularly wrong. My favorite one was about irreducible Galois Fields: all AI’s got it totally wrong every single time. Until one year ago they started answering correctly.
My use of AI in this case was to find a plausible explanation, not the right one. I’ll want to hear with my ears this alleged improvement. If I can’t hear it, then the switch is useless to me (including the case that my ears are no longer serving me well).
Or AI simply gets things wrong. My experience is that one reason may be that the AI engine does not understand the question. I had this experience yesterday when AI appeared be unable to distinguish between the date that a novel was written and its publication.
Worrying when so many seem to believe that AI will somehow solve the world’s problems instead of inadvertently creating new ones.
Back to topic: why not ask AI what is the best ethernet cable brand for your setup? 
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This is vey interesting, because I am looking at the Momentum power amp as my next upgrade (I currently have the progression S350).
What can you tell me of the sound with a Rossini+clock? Have you ever heard a comparison between the S350 and the Momentum?
Thank you
A.
On second thought: this has nothing to do with Ethernet cables so I’m afraid I’m hijacking the thread. Maybe we can follow up in private or open a new thread?
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Because when it’s about music I trust my ears more than an AI.
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GPT 4o, which is free, just makes things up when it doesn’t know. The models have not been trained to say “I don’t know the answer.” o3, which comes with a monthly subscription of €23 in Germany, shows the sources of its answers and is very reliable. o3-pro, which I’m testing for work for one month (€229 monthly subscription), is very thorough like o3 but gives much better structured and comprehensive answers in a very coherent and eloquent way.
Strictly off topic but I found the same with the USB cable, Dunc. I put it up against a Supra Excalibur and much much preferred the latter. Similar if not identical to your own adjectives, I’d describe the sound as bright, harsh, thin. Not the cable for me.
I don’t think this is fair, even though you wink when you say it!
There are reasons ethernet cables can sound different from each other, and these have been touched upon. What is clearly wrong here is to put any of the difference we genuinely hear down to timing, as this is clearly impossible in a deliberately designed-to-be-Asynchronous domain like Ethernet.
The Schnerzinger may well sound better than other cables @Frankie67 has tried. It’s just nothing to do with timing.
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You’re welcome to your opinion of course, which I do not share. As for Ethernet cables “sounding different”, I’m afraid that’s more in people’s imagination then reality. Again, let’s agree to disagree. By the way, that wasn’t a wink emoji.
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No it was a smiley.
Yes I disagree strongly. If you are really discounting RFI noise ingress as a differentiator across cables then you’re missing a really really important factor in sound quality. It doesn’t affect the data, doesn’t affect anything this side of the analog(ue) componentry of the DAC, but the impact is clearly audible to so many that it’s frankly ridiculous to suggest it’s all in the imagination of so many people here.
Let’s not waste time rehashing old arguments Nigel, we’ve been down this path many times before in various threads about Ethernet/RFI, how to easily mitigate it without having to spend thousand$ on an Ethernet Cable or on an Ethernet Switch for that matter (whether from your Reiki Audio or elsewhere).
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Yes, let’s not.
At least you’ve changed from ruling out the possibility of a system sounding different with different cables to acknowledging there is an issue but asserting it can be easily mitigated. At least you are no longer suggesting, rather patronisingly, that any differences are purely in people’s imaginations. This is progress.
Oh, and thanks for the advert.
As usual, you’re slightly confused, but not matter, it’s expected.
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You need to make it clearer when you’re looking in the mirror, @Anupc. For a moment I thought you were talking to me!
I think it’s your one post liker who seems confused, accidentally wandering into a forum for dCS owners having wandered off nearly a year ago. 
Can we agree to disagree on this one please? 
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Whenever it’s late at night, and there isn’t anything “new” or “interesting” on the dCS board, I just keep hoping that someone will post something on this thread.
Then, when someone does, I think: “Thank goodness. At least we can still argue about Ethernet cables!”
lol
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Oh man, as much as I like Shunyata, - I think the Venom X EF power cables are incredible value for money and they made a big difference for my Lina vs. slightly less expensive power cables of another brand - the Omega v2 Ethernet cable just sucks the live out of my 2-channel system. I picked it up today and don’t even need to do a blind test.
I listened to Oscar Peterson’s The Trio Live From Chicago album and the musicality is completely gone. I usually want to get up and dance to it. Norah Jones’ voice in the “I’ve Got to See You Again” track on the Come Away with Me album usually gives me chills. Gone with the Shunyata.
This Shunyata is going back. My €6.60 Ethernet cable stays.
