AQVox AQ-SWITCH-8

[brit]

This morning I have tried A/B testing the Aqvox versus my old switch, using AIR 3.0.4.  I had two reasons for doing this, firstly some previous posters where asking about the potential for the Aqvox to improve sound quality with AIR.  (@brit / David, as I recall, there may have been others)  The second reason was that I figured that I am using the switch in front of a microRendu and Mutec MC3+USB.  This is a combination that should provide isolation and re-clocking, so perhaps any short comings in the old switch were somehow being masked by the good work of the Mutec.  So in other words, I was expecting it to be easier to discern the good work of the Aqvox via AIR.  I had intended this to be a fairly quick and straightforward test, but I ended up spending more time on it than I had expected, with a lot of rapid A/B swaps on particular sections of music.  The reason I did this was because on a couple of occasions I felt that the old cheap TP Link switch was best!  There was still a very vague feeling that the sound stage was a little better with the Aqvox, but I really cannot be sure.  I have to be blunt here, in my view the Aqvox would be a complete waist of money to use with AIR, spend it somewhere else!

Hi Confused, it was indeed I who posed the question re Aqvox and AIR . Many thanks for taking the trouble to carry out this test, very much appreciated from my point of view - I think that you have saved me some money .

David