I think this looks really interesting, @tedwoods. At first glance I thought it was a 2-port switch but it purports to be effectively 2 FMCs in one case. Great price too! For audio, the LEDs aren’t ideal and don’t really add any value; but it would be interesting to hear feedback from anyone using one.
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It seems the LEDs can be turned off (there is a switch for that), but I'm not sure if that includes the port LEDs as well...
That would be a bonus. Obviously there are compromises here - shared power supply across upstream and downstream sides, adjacent circuitry allowing for noise leakage from upstream to downstream etc but for the price, that’s a heck of a lot of tech.
I want to say that I've found network connections considerably more noisy than an external USB drive. I have an 2TB drive connected to the back of my EMM Labs NS1 streamer (which I use the optilink optical output). With the USB, a Shunyata Omega USB cable and a couple iFi purifier dongles (iGalvanic 3.0, iSilencer) are able to get most, if not all the noise. With an ethernet connection, the rabbit hole to clean that up is endless and eventually you work up into Taiko Audio stuff which gets really expensive. I've personally not ever come to a point where network streamed stuff didn't have some overly of noise. FWIW.
Many thanks. May I ask which DC/AC power unit and power cable do you use for Telegartner? M12 only has DC input and, as far as I know, it doesn’t have right associates for that. I have to buy from other brands.
My M12 Premium comes with a cable that plugs into the unit on one side and into a regular wall outlet on the other. I have it going into a Puritan PSM-156.
In this picture it's the cable in the top right of the unit.
@Superdad We may be viewing this from different angles. I always view such stuff entirely from the user/buyer perspective: what do they get for their money in terms of the performance and/or features and/or benefits they need? There's no reason a customer should value something designed/built from scratch unless it outperforms at the price point alternatives built from stock cases, stock boards or whatever. There is nothing inherently superior about circuitry designed from the ground up, it's all about the performance of the end product. Maybe the use of some stock components, integrated in an intelligent way, is one reason iFi can offer their customer base products that appeal and appear to represent great customer value. I don't know, not exactly my area of personal or professional interest, but it seems like a reasonable assumption.
I'm happy driving my BMW which uses "stock" brakes, steering components and a probably a whole load of other tech used across other manufacturers. They're not the cheapest components, I'd wager, but neither are they unique to BMW... All that concerns me is how it drives, which is superbly.
So when I say a lot of tech for the money, I'm not referring to input costs; I'm talking about the configuration options etc presented to the end customer and the iFi device seems to offer a lot in this respect, as I'd venture do many of the devices they produce. "For the money" is of course an important qualifier here: I have not heard one and have no desire to do so! But it still seems like a lot of tech for the money compared with its direct competitors.
All the best,
Nigel
I'm happy driving my BMW which uses "stock" brakes, steering components and a probably a whole load of other tech used across other manufacturers. They're not the cheapest components, I'd wager, but neither are they unique to BMW... All that concerns me is how it drives, which is superbly.
So when I say a lot of tech for the money, I'm not referring to input costs; I'm talking about the configuration options etc presented to the end customer and the iFi device seems to offer a lot in this respect, as I'd venture do many of the devices they produce. "For the money" is of course an important qualifier here: I have not heard one and have no desire to do so! But it still seems like a lot of tech for the money compared with its direct competitors.
All the best,
Nigel
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