Noisy Caiman relays

The head-fi accusations have been discussed on AoS over the years and at length. I suggest that you do a search on that before repeating unsubstantiated allegations posted by the owner of that site 5 years ago. I have had no right of reply on that sire to defend myself, nor did I have any chance to retrieve my private messages from that site that clearly show the intend of the site owner to extract payment from me for having a presence on his site.

AoS offered me a right to reply here in over the years, which Marco would have no problem in confirming.

With regards to the AVSforum: After reading the thread it is quite clear that is an accusation levelled against a member called TommyS who mentioned that he ordered the DAC one day and received it the next. All my UK customers know that I use Royal Mail Next Day delivery service and my speed of delivery has frequently been praised. People in other countries might find that a strange possibility, which is reflected in their attack on that member and accusation of all sort of things.
Coming to DIYAudio: I have not been banned on that site and neither have I ever posted anything there that relates to my DAC in any shape or form. I look forward to a more detailed disclosure from you on the correct facts regarding DIYAudio.

You are merely repeating accusations without any evidence to support any of your claims. I hope you got a good solicitor.

I can see no evidence of Stan posting under different names. In fact, anyone who knows how the internet works should understand that any two people with the same service provider can and do easily share the same IP address via a mechanism called NAT.

I am withdrawing the inflammatory posts but will leave Stan's response intact as it is for him to leave it stand or withdraw it.

I need to make one thing clear: the idea of moving all Beresford threads into one sub-forum was mine and it was me who performed the thread moves. I sent Stan a courtesy message to let him know what we were doing, that's all. We did the same thing recently with Technics turntables, both for the same reason: to keep the high volume of traffic pertaining to those subjects in one place.

We do not tolerate trade bias in the Art of Sound forum.

OK, in light of the comments I would like to retract my usage of the wording "caught out" and believe that "accused" is a more truthful reflection of what has gone on here. It was incorrect of me to assume that the forum posts that I showed consituted "evidence" as MartinT pointed out.

I would also like to point out that I will not be pushing this any further & apologise for any issues that I have caused.

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Originally Posted by MartinT

In fact, anyone who knows how the internet works should understand that any two people with the same service provider can and do easily share the same IP address via a mechanism called NAT.

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Sorry to be anal but NAT is used for converting public address ranges (Your ISP provided IP) to private address ranges (10.x.x.x, 172.16.x.x - 172.31.x.x, 192.168.x.x).

ISPs use something subtly different called Route Aggregation allowing them to converge and then route large subnets together (Typically chunks of 16000~ IPs and greater).

User authentication is carried out by unique line ID's, although this is entirely down to the ISP in question. Some use NAC (Network Access Control) solutions, while others will use systems like RADIUS.

Yes, thanks Tom. I was being necessarily simplistic with the message that public IPs are frequently shared and/or reallocated.

I just noticed this thread after a while.

I can confirm that I am not Stan, though I think that is established already.

I can also confirm I am not dead :). I am also still a customer of Stans, I very recently bought a bushmaster but still use my heavily modified caiman in a second system.

I had stopped posting in this thread, or any other, because the issue I had raised was fixed for me. Still lurk about a bit though in other threads. I only post when I feel I have something useful to contribute.

Still, the last time I looked here I was the only one with this problem so it is comforting to see that others were experiencing the same thing. With the relays removed my caiman still works perfectly and is totally silent when it is supposed to be. If anyone else has benefitted from my posts and the picture then I am well pleased.

Brian