Silent Angel Bonn N8, Audiophile Data Switch, 8P Gigabit

Silent Angel Bonn N8

Retail Price: € 449,00

Non EU Buyers and EU Buyers with a valid VAT nr pay € 371,07

Combination Deal: If you order the Bonn Forester Power Supply (value € 469,00) together with the Silent Angel Bonn N8 in the options below, you benefit from a combo price of only € 835,00 instead of € 918,00.

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General: Audiophile Gigabit switch 8P

Technology: An audiophile switch is in many ways a very strange device. It is a device that distributes network traffic, just like any other switch that does that. The data complies with certain protocols, TCP/IP, and data packets are simply forwarded, verified, and done. The music data that comes in from a NAS, or Tidal or Qobuz, does not arrive in your streamer as PCM or DSD data, but as TCP/IP protocol data packets. It is therefore impossible for a switch to change anything about that. Just connect a printer to an audiophile switch, and we guarantee you that the same prints will come out of the printer. And yet, when you connect such an audiophile switch in your hi-fi installation, you hear it. The sound image changes, and for the better. Not enormously much, but very clearly audible. Since the data itself has not changed, it must have to do with the suppression of the various ethernet lines that are connected to it. Interference in a network switch can also possibly penetrate into the connected equipment, and there, somewhere, disturb things. Since the Bonn N8 Silent Angel costs only € 449, it is an upgrade that is definitely worth it. The Bonn N8 is supplied standard with a switched mode PSU. Optional, and highly recommended, is to purchase the Bonn with the optional audiophile power supply, the Bonn Forester F1.

Listening: Connecting the Bonn N8 is simple. The switch is auto sensing, and you choose 1 port as input, and the remaining 7 ports become outputs. It is immediately clear that something has changed. You immediately recognize your carefully built sound image again, only now all qualities suddenly become much clearer. Everything has become cleaner and quieter. The spatiality also seems to have increased. The sound image is larger. The Bonn N8 comes standard with an excellent power supply, but it can be better. With the optional Bonn Forester F1 power supply, the benefits of the Bonn N8 switch become even much greater. We advise everyone who invests in the Bonn N8 to replace the power supply with the Bonn Forester F1, either immediately or in time. The switch sounds noticeably much better. Even more peace and quiet, and even more 3D and a more analog sound. Remarkable, but true. In addition to the Bonn N8 and the Bonn Forester F1, we also supply the audiophile switches from Ansuz.

Specifications of this unit:

Brand: Thunderdata

Model: Bonn N8 Silent Angel

Type: Audiophile Data Switch

Speed: 100/1000Mb/sec

Number of ports: 8 x UTP, auto sensing

Clock: Special low jitter clock

Power Supply: Switched Mode Medical Grade PSU 5V, 1A

Optional: Bonn Forester Audiophile Linear Power Supply

Weight: 1.2Kg

Dimensions: 154mm W x 85mm D x 26mm H