Looks like every cable manufacturer is jumping the band wagon now adding ethernet cables.
This speaks for the growing market now unlike few years back, am guessing the Shunyata would compete with the Vertere sonics, possibly being on the warmer/softer side of the spectrum, going by Shunyata's sound signature.
Have added the 2nd Sotm switch with sclk-ex clocking my router. It's rather complicated and believe me, someone who knows networking will not be able to setup to get the whole network up and running and my purpose of adding it was to simplify my heavily clocked network.
So it goes something like this
Router(sclk-ex) > Dalby Meda cable > SNH(Ex/Mutec 10M) > Fibre > SNH(EX/Mutec 10M) > Dalby Meda cable > W20 (Mutec 10M) > Mutec MC3 (Mutec 10M) >D1x(Mutec 10M).
I excluded including my OCXO clocked Optical modem which in fact comes before the router as the Sotm Sclk-ex output failed to deliver a strong enough signal to enable the unit to be centrally clocked.
My Mutec 10M's clock output has all eight outputs maxed out.
So every single digital device stream has been clocked.
It was very very good, but what made the quantum change was the addition of the Dalby Meda cable after the router made my jaw literally drop!
Possibly the extent that i would rate the improvement is worthy of an investment of 4X which i would have been compelled to spend over the cost of the last cable!
Reports of improvements of 2 Sotm switches are exactly what other have described, Fantastic! I hear the difference with it being 10M clocked and however good it was alone, i will only accept it with a 10M reference.
My first test was Sotm switch > Dalby Meda Cable > Sotm switch and the improvement was undeniable, but i have it via fibre to replace my OCXO clocked Fibre converter.
I have gone through at least 10 OCXO clocked switches and fibre converters, all were really good too, slowly tweaked over the past years with low noise regulation in its circuits with fantastic results.
Through my journey, the network was messy, have 2 different voltage supplies to each Fibre converter as the OCXO clock required a separate supply from the main unit. Now, another equally big improvement via the 2 Sotm switches.
As every little bit of synergy is required, i was not expecting the last cable addition to make such a large improvement.
Networking improvement are just so critical and the improvements, incredible!
I guess i am finished now.., the forthcoming Uptone switch is interesting and very tempting to have a try, well, lets see.
PS. There is clearly so much more inner detail now, coming from using just a very good ethernet cable before the switches to a great one.
Not until today, i would always said the last ethernet cable was the most obvious and important, always believed using decent to good ones before was sufficient for a notable change, but never drastic.
Now, the first ethernet cable before switches/ fibre connections (however many in series) becomes equally and eventually became the most important cable providing dramatic change for me.
A Wireworld Platinum was replaced.