I’ve just installed the new linear power supply

This guy believes he hears a difference by using "Audiophile Ethernet switches" and similar "Audiophile" gear.
I personally wouldn't trust him to review my shoes ..

 

According to Eversolo, the only difference are the FEMPTO clocks.

Only resellers mention the op-amps (which might or might not be different):
The Master Edition A6 has the TI OPA1612 (verified)
No idea what the standard A6 has (no one has bothered to actually check).

Oh - you forgot the best: the Orange led on the volume knob

 

Opened my DMP -A6 Standard Edition when replacing the PSU but even using a magnifying glass could not read it.
Anyway I doubt that it matters at all as the specification differences are far beyond the average hearing level.

 

I know - I used a Macro lens on my camera

 

Neat trick.

 

amir does listning tests too, so its not true they only measure. and nothing wrong with good science as your primary leg to stand on.

 

Respective specifications confirmed here, https://www.eversolo.com/Product/spec/model/DMP-A6/target/7abWHw++oHhKKmVViAFMcQ==.html

and here, https://www.eversolo.com/Product/sp...+Edition/target/SGlS2hlXYyJKKmVViAFMcQ==.html

 

At last, they added M.E, to the product list

And a new 2 channel amp !

 

To my ears connecting an ifi lan iSilencer to the EverSolo ME improveed the sound. So i am happy with that. Also in the past replacing generic cat5e Ethernet Cables with supra cat8 cables and replacing router/and switch psu with ifi i powerx all have improved the sound to my ears.

 

fine by me

(PS: I just expressed my personal opinion - that doesn't mean I don't respect other people's choices)

 

"Also in the past replacing generic cat5e Ethernet Cables with supra cat8 cables and replacing router/and switch psu with ifi i powerx all have improved the sound to my ears". Two possibilities:
1) You are in the business of selling these and making big bucks there.
2) There is something with your hearing influenced by investments directly.
This is really impossible but go ahead and spend that money.

 

3. I just trust my ears.

 

Presumably using memory. Audio memory. Proved to last not more than a couple of seconds. Go figure. In the end, good for you.

 

The best thing is that stuff that i have not listened to before sound better then ever in my system.

Anyway.

Is this psu you're talking about right. Looks well built as always from LHY https://www.beatechnik.com/lps-a6

The same company make this beetiful design of a Ethernet switch. Now if it couldn't make a difference i have a hard time to see they would put so much effort and work in such product for nothing. I dont think they do it for earning money. Its a small community intrested in buying expensive switches i think.

https://www.beatechnik.com/lhy-audio-sw-10

 

The products look great, and also well manufactured. Prices are not on the cheap side, of course, being aimed at audiophools, and of course the results / benefits are always too subjective to be dismissed.
I don't eat the leaf, so to say; but am not saying you shouldn't too.
You may argue that bits are not just bits, but they are, and as far as data-transmission is concerned, you either get it, or not. No matter what switch / router / ethernet card you use. And data doesn't carry noise in it, otherwise this website could look all well, or all messed up, depending on the quality of your network switch...

Cheers.

 

Personally i believe that the electricity being used for the data high/or low voltage the ones and zeros that travel in the Ethernet Cables will effect the sound of the streamer in this case. Also the lower the noise that is dumped in the homes grid with different PSUs the better for audio.

About the benefits of more stable clocking in switches. I wont rule it out completely. How much can the better timing compared to generic switches matter? At least there should be less resend and buffering and less work for the receiving device and maybe that generate less noise. So i have read before can be the case. Phase noise is often mentioned so maybe less of that also.

Il try to keep an open mind. And if i can hear sound improvements i am happy with that. I have not myself tested any audiophile switches yet. My netgear one will do in the mean time powered by ifi ipowerx.

 

The electricity needed to generate 1s and 0s has no impact of the 1s and 0s.
The noise does not affect the 1s and 0s; it can eventually mess them up, this resulting in a packet retransmission, but not a degraded one.
Clocking in switches has no effect on the quality of data transmission, eventually just on its speed.
Clocking on the audio bitstream is a different thing (switched do no bitstream, they send size-finite, checksum-ed packets), but modern DACs with UAC2.0 do their own reclocking, being the stream data requests dictated by themselves, and not by the source (as happend with UAC1.0).

Data packets cannot be received corrupted: they either are received correctly, or they are not (case in which they are sent again). In the unfortunate event they keep being received corrupted for too long / too many times, they get discarded, and in this case you hear clicks / pops in the sound. But you cannot, in any way, receive a damaged data packet; this is how networks (your LAN / WAN, the internet, etc.) work.

 

I know that. But i think the noise of the electricity enters the streamer and will effect the noise floor there. Impacting the DA conversion and the analogue signal.

 

There was some interesting measurements showed in this video. Believe it or not.