arnyk wrote: > Look I followed your link John, and it led nowhere because you didn't > check it out. That is your problem. > > Truth is I'd buy the hub in a heartbeat if it wasn't for the fact that I > don't currently need anything else from Monoprice and their minimum > shipping fee is as I recall, several times the cost of the part. > > But, given the vague nature of your follow-on comments, I have every > reason to believe that I'd hook the thing up and it would work and that > would be that. > > > > You are deflecting, John. You claimed that cheap hubs have a strong > tendency to seriously damage expensive DACs. What you've shown appears > to be a few trivial problems with non-mainstream gear. Let's face it, a > Rasberry Pi is a cheap piece of gear all by itself. A missing diode does > not equate to instant bench fire and serious damage. As seems to be > usual, you make a spectacular-sounding claim and then bring in anything > but evidence that actually supports it. > > Furthermore, this whole line of discussion is in itself a deflection > from the fact that as things stand, we have no reliable or empirical > evidence that the product we are discussing is anything but a degenerate > USB hub that lacks the usual ability to drive more than one device from > a single port. > > Nobody including yourself seems to have been able to point out a > technical test or reliable listening test that affirms that the product > does anything but take in money from naive placebophiles, add some more > potential points of failure and convert energy into heat.
considering the first 3 batches are sold out enough people seem to be convinced by the pedigree of the device. JS and Alex have also found improvements to the original design, which I suppose you would call fraudulent consumerist marketing practice rather than two enthusiasts developing their product. Touch optimisations http://touchsgotrythm.blogspot.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBGK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=52003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103684 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
