We’ve received some fantastic reviews and awards over the years for our products. When we get new reviews, we do our best to make sure that everyone knows. We spread the word through social media, blogs, emails, and tell anyone willing to listen! However, once the press starts piling up, and new products start to get their time in the spotlight, these amazing reviews can tend to be forgotten.
While you always have access to these great reviews, thanks to the Reviews Page on the Nordost website, we want to make sure that if you are considering an upgrade or just want to learn more about a specific product, you can do so easily. This is especially true with Nordost’s Network Switches. Nordost’s QNET and QNET7 are layer-2, five-port network switches that have been designed and constructed from the ground up to elevate digital audio performance. All aspects of Nordost’s network switches, from clocks, to transports, to independent ports, were chosen in order to minimize noise, crosstalk, and interference.
There is A LOT to learn about the QNET and QNET7, and the in-depth reviews that these products have received are a great starting point in understanding how they work, their benefits, and their differences.
This blog puts together some of our favorite QNET and QNET7 reviews so that you can access all of these informative articles at once!
hi-fi+: Nordost QNET7 Network Switch
“.. . there is an important musical consideration the QNET 7 brings to network audio; a sense of order and calm to the music. It’s as if the musicians practiced a little more before they went into the studio. Music hangs together better here. Once again, this is more peeling away layers between the listener and the music, rather than adding or changing the sound.” – Alan Sircom
Mono and Stereo: Nordost QNET and QSOURCE Review
“The impact of the Nordost QNET network switch and QSOURCE linear power supply is anything but subtle—it is intoxicatingly enticing. Their sheer ability to deliver startling immediacy, tactile presence, and meticulous attention to the playing is remarkable.” – Matej Isak
StereoNET: Nordost QNET Network Switch Review
“With Nordost’s new QNET in place, everything sounds smoother and more fluid; it’s better balanced with less harshness. The leading edges of notes seem to be sharper and have more energy, giving the system greater dynamic expression.” – Mark Gusew
hi-fi+: Nordost QNET Network Switch
“Thanks to Nordost’s QNET, network audio just took a leap forward in listenability. It makes your streamed music sound more like music and it’s only when you realise just how far from that goal we usually are with networked audio that you begin to understand how important this humble- looking audiophile hockey puck is going to be.” – Alan Sircom
Positive Feedback: Nordost QNET Ethernet Switch
“With the QNET] It was clearly a move forward with small improvements across the board, and one major shift. The transformation of soundstage depth was extraordinary, as flat space became deep. The impression of 3D was so great it caused me to question, could this be an artifact?” – Marshall Nack
Stereophile: Nordost QNET and QSOURCE – Network Switch and Linear Power Supply
“I can honestly say that the QNet/QSource pairing transported me closer to my ultimate goal, which is to move closer to the source of artistic creation and the artists I love.” – Jason Victor Serinus