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This would have been a much better article if they purchased the device and tore it apart to see what is inside. I mean is it full of generic unlabeled chips sa
by spookthesunset 5y ago
This would have been a much better article if they purchased the device and tore it apart to see what is inside. I mean is it full of generic unlabeled chips salvaged off some other switch? Is it all name brand? How is the circuit board layout? Are you at least getting top of the line components?
Also would have been interesting to analyze the audio streams on an oscilloscope to see how "enhanced" (or not enhanced) they were when passed through this switch.
Instead this article just looks at a single review. I mean obviously this switch doesn't magically make audio better somehow. But demonstrating why that is would have been both entertaining and provided a good community service.
I guess somebody should fork over some cash and ship one of these to AvE, bigclive, or electroboom... at least they'd tear it down.
- smackeyacky 5y agoMore than likely its an alibaba $5 generic 100mbps switch. Thats what is inside other audiophile switches. The trick here is that nobody is going to toss $2500 at Synergistic just to pull one apart and void the warranty to find out. Quite a clever scam.
- spookthesunset 5y agoI mean you are probably right but I'd love the teardown anyway. Maybe you are wrong? Maybe they have custom silicon or at least "name brand" chips? Or maybe it is a shitshow that features the crappiest power supply and salvaged chips with the markings scraped off tossed onto the worst PCB on earth. Maybe it is a hub and not a switch? Who knows? I'd like to know!
- smackeyacky 5y agoMe too. Perhaps we could quietly crowdfund a purchase and ship the item off to be torn down.
- tdeck 5y agoI was going to say, this thing looks incredibly cheap. Like it's cobbled together from a standard enclosure and parts you can buy on AliExpress.
- alisonkisk 5y ago