14-Jul-2020, 16:37
(14-Jul-2020, 14:35)Antoine Wrote:(14-Jul-2020, 11:28)PeppaPig Wrote: Saying a Devialet 250 sounds harsh and unpleasant and then resolved by a EtherRegen is largely doubtful.
I have repeatedly compared with and without the EtherRegen, and I leave it in my system for about 1.5 months and then remove it. It does NOT make any difference.
I still have my EtherRegen in my home, I didn’t sell it because I feel like if I am selling it, I might be cheating the buyer.
Additionally, the EtherRegen runs very very hot, especially summer I feel unsafe to leave it on 24 hours 7 days. It might be safe but it just make me worry. It’s so much hotter than my 1000watt Expert 1000 Pro after 2 hour of loud play.
Do research on how TCP/IP works, if the Ethernet is unreliable in delivering data, we should really worry about Net banking, and all financial organisations should worry more than audiophiles. Remember those data are sent to the memory in Devialet Expert and then reclocked by Expert internals.
If you are using USB input into Devialet, story “might be” different, not the Ethernet.
The Etherregen and other ‘audiophile’ switches do not address data integrity issues, these issues do not exist nor does anyone at Uptone Audio say they exist. They do address signal integrity and noise issues.
This has been discussed many times, though I’m not sure if it has been discussed here on DC, I do not want to go there now especially since at this moment there’s only working theories about why all this matters. IMO these discussions also rarely lead to anything worthwhile.
I agree discussion about this kind of topic does not lead to any result.
I am just sharing my experience with my Devialet, I want to point out I heard no difference, noise level or sound quality are same to me, might be someone else can hear a difference or different room matters.
By the way, What is signal integrity? And what is the result is signal integrity not perfect? I thought at the end it’s delivering data package over TCP/IP.
Anyway I could be wrong but I will suggest carefully adding those components, better get a demo to try out first.
