Wouldn’t using a shielded cable with plastic RJ-45 plugs achieve the same goal? I use plastic connectors and have all my cable screens star earthed to a low impedance ground.
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Expecially at the ends (so in the plug) it is essential to have some shielding as the cables within the connector are no longer twisted (now paralelled configuration) therefore noise can be injected plus the crosstalk between the signals will be much stronger. Again this is pure the technical side of it....
That just might be mine his is tinkering with because i have one on order. This is a giganormus step (and cost ) for me, only equal to my hopes of sound that will caress my eardrums. In august it will come to my dealer. I cant wait!!!
All the best Jaxho
Welcome to the forum @jaxho , congratulations on your purchase!
It is supported but as it doesn't support ASIO, at least not reliably, there's not much sense in keeping it included.
We have several iterations of a switch ready we could put into production. However I'm not fully satisfied. One of the largest challenges is getting a consistent performance improvement over a wide range of use cases. For example some configurations improve local file playback but degrade streaming performance, others "beautify" small scale performance but confuse large scale orchestral. You can smooth out leading edges creating a more forgiving sound while at the same time reducing apparent event energy portrayal, etc etc. I am not in favour at all of creating a switch with settings, like for example jazz, rock or classical. The bottom line is that switches do introduce some kind of colouration or effect, like any other device you connect to or introduce into your system. From this switch design process stems the current recommendation to try an unshielded cat5/cat6 cable as you can consider those to be "neutral", and I did identify noise travelling cable shields as one of the most damaging aspects of a network connection, what still needs to be investigated are the effects of conductor to shield capacitance and how that affects things when one leg (the shield) is fully floating or connected on one side, hence I cannot recommend to try anything beyond something unshielded at this time. I'm currently also looking into other ways to address this issue as the switch iteration which satisfies me most would not be cheap, it has a very large parts count, it would probably end up retailing at at least as much as the Telegartner Gold M12 which I feel is not worth the degree of improvement (significantly less then a USB cable or power cord here) and still not provide a complete solution for all systems and musical preferences.
Yes, plus a change in impedance causing increased radiation, you will measure higher emissions straight on that connector then on the cable itself, you could argue that can couple to a connector shield which is in turn connected to your chassis. What is technically correct from a data integrity POV unfortunately does not always agree with our ears.
Yes, unfortunately the chip on the Solaflare NIC is very hot. But in terms of sound, I don't know anything better. I can recommend the Solarflare models SFN8522 and even better XtremeScale X2522.
I'm eventually headed toward a Berkeley DAC so I guess I'll have to keep my Totaldac reclocker. Looking forward to that pause feature in TAS!
No. You can play and stop. If you can FF and/or REW I haven’t figured that out yet.
I can't help but think about the glowing comments something like that will get from the audiosciencereview crowd
does the same argument suggest that there should be no shield connection between server and DAC also?
if i'm not mistaken, the floating shield of the Sablon would serve the same purpose of breaking the conductive path from the server to the DAC, right?
TAS is a BETA release, we understood that when we installed it
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We have a customer who has nice results with Total DAC reclocker to the Berkeley DAC
haven't really looked at start or end, but gaps between tracks are very noticeable.
gapless playback is a key feature of future beta release.
Two different issues here: the gap between tracks everyone is experiencing and the other is a stutter at the start of many (but not all) tracks and a premature end on many as well which I'm experiencing. I'm beginning to think my issues are caused by some kind on interface problem between my reclocker and the 8c's DAC since, if I understand correctly, I'm the only reclocker owner having these issues.
