Hmm... With that list it sounds link the "bottom line" is a minimum $3,000 ($6,900 being average of the 5)
Thanks for helping me with the new pricing strategy for our forthcoming EtherREGEN Gen2.
Emile from Taiko has a different view on this. He believes that the reason some perceive a benefit from multiple switches in series is because less offensive noise will mask more offensive noise. Kind of like how white noise pumped into a office can make voices less distracting (my paraphrase). I don’t have a way to validate his hypothesis, but it does seem to address what had perplexed me about this. Specifically, how can it be possible that more noisy switches can be perceived of as sounding better than fewer noisy switches. I’m not sure I buy the buffering argument.
There are some switches that do aim to pass less noise than they produce, but it still seems counterintuitive to use more than one of them in series.
I tend to believe Emile is right about this and cascaded switches might be introducing a kind of "dithering" effect.
Ansuz, although it might prove to be something entirely different, seem to be incorporating (among other things) some kind of "dither" technology in some of their TOTL Power switches.
