Buffalo Audio Switch - What do you guys think about this product?

[dartinbout]

Is it made from the oil of organic snakes?

 

[Rednaxela]

Recently I saw Buffalo Audio Switch BS-GS2016/A.

This is the hidden message.

 

[Ducnguyen2k10]

This is the hidden message.

LOl

 

[fpitas]

I cannot argue with that. It's good to be happy.

Cue "Happy Happy Joy Joy"

 

[Doodski]

The internet is noisy and this device takes the noise away and you can hear more detail in the music. I am happy

Do you understand how the transmission of a digital waveform is engineered? What in the electrical waveform makes a one and a zero?

 

[Peluvius]

If it the same price/quality as an ethernet switch, can't see much harm? Won't change how things sound.

 

[NiagaraPete]

Haha, nothing but a waste of money.

 

[BolusOfDoom]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

 

[Doodski]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

I thought a switch solved that as compared to a general purpose non-switched hub.

 

[antcollinet]

I cannot argue with that. It's good to be happy.

Good to be happy - less good to tell lies.

 

[fpitas]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

I know from Ghostbusters that you should never cross the streams.

 

[antcollinet]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

No smiley - Poes law applies.

 

[Doodski]

I know from Ghostbusters that you should never cross the streams.

Ghostbusters!

 

[bquimby]

The internet is noisy and this device takes the noise away and you can hear more detail in the music. I am happy

The...Internet is...noisy? In what way? I'd really like to understand exactly how "noise" is introduced to the datastream. Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[bquimby]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

I was once on a network troubleshooting conference call, back when I worked for a huge financial trading company, and we had a couple of engineers also present from the small trading exchange that we were connecting to, over leased-line. Data was getting dropped, we said they had issues on their network, they said it was our side. Impasse, and we were losing tens of thousands of dollars a day, so this joint troubleshoot was very important. Our senior network engineer for Europe (I'll call him "AJ") laid out our evidence for the problem being on their side, and when he'd finished, one of the other party's engineers (I'll call him "Twit") said:

"Well, maybe the IP addresses are too close together".

Long pause.

"I'm sorry...what?" AJ asked, bewildered.

Slight pause. "Well, you know," said Twit, "the last octet of the IP addresses for the upstream router and the downstream firewall are consecutive numbers, so maybe they're too...um...close together, and...er...interfering with...um...each...other..." He trailed off.

Another long pause while this sinks in. "So, you're saying, " AJ said slowly, his voice dripping with incredulity, "that these computers are getting...what? Confused? Misreading the addresses accidentally? The streams are getting crossed?" ("Never cross the streams," someone muttered, sotto voce).

Another pause. Then Twit's colleague breaks in: "Sorry, Twit had to take another call, he's dropped off". And we continued without him.

Inability to understand how computer networks function: there's a lot of it about, it seems, even for so-called professionals...

 

[fpitas]

The use case here is if you have multiple streams on one subnet. You have to keep them separate just like when, uh, two AM radio stations are too close together and the sermons get mingled.

Science already knows that crossing the streams is bad.

 

[Rja4000]

Nothing. Any standard Ethernet switch will suffice for audio and video.

Well, one may object that depends the amount of audio or video you want to transfer and the latency you expect, somehow.

But for stereo audio or single standard FHD video stream, you're right.

For ms-range latency for 64 channels 24 bit 192kHz audio, you'd want a Gigabit ethernet manageable switch with some basic QoS parameters tuning.
Nothing special still: I use a model costing around 150€ including VAT.
And tuning takes less than 5 minutes. Once.

And, of course, either it's working. Either not.
No subtle nuance here.

 

[Bergante]

The firmware was coded using Roman numerals instead of the cold, digitalish hexadecimal or binary.

Roman numerals give a vintage, airy character to the soundstage.

 

[DonR]

The firmware was coded using Roman numerals instead of the cold, digitalish hexadecimal or binary.

Roman numerals give a vintage, airy character to the soundstage.

Subtle but deadly. Props to you.

 

[Berwhale]

Unfortunately my desktop system is not resolving enough to reveal the 4 TP-Link managed switches between my PC and NAS. To make matters worse, I have aggregated links between some of the switches and bonded connections on the NAS, so it's pretty difficult to predict exactly which ley lines my music will cross on it's journey to my ears.