jkeny wrote: > WHy not get it in green then & see if it's fixed >
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. > > > http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=103&cp_id=10307&cs_id=1030702&p_id=10067&seq=1&format=2 > > Nope lots of examples of these hubs missing the "hub diode that prevents > back-powering," - "that is, current cannot flow in the reverse > direction from the hub coaxial power connector back out to the micro B > input port and into the Raspberry Pi." See the diagram below from that > e-Linux site > > The Monoprice hub is one such hub. The point is "don't expect even basic > electrical engineering for $3" - I don't know what you expect for $3? > > 18128 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 and convert energy into heat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103684 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
