Network Switches

@rivinyl 

A gentle caution, It’s so easy to over-analyze the Ethernet signal chain. I’ve been down that rabbit hole—switches, filters, cables, clocks… the nth degree of tweaking.

After all that, here’s my takeaway: Less is often more. You’ll get better results focusing on fewer, higher-quality components rather than stacking layers of tweaks. Simplicity when done right, can sound astonishing.

At the end of the day, trust your ears. Stream smart, not cluttered.

Look at the components that offer robust performance and functionality. 

Tweak your existing setup with following, add optical conversion ahead of your streamer / DAC

https://www.beatechnik.com/product-page/lhy-audio-efi

And this to your basic switch, 

https://a.co/d/2rnfJYr

@rivinyl along the lines of what was recommended by @lalitk

here’s a cheaper option for lan optical isolator 

https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/accessories/ifi-lan-ipurifier-pro/

comes with Music Direct return policy. 
you would place this device to feed the final Ethernet entry point - if you’re using the electrocompaniet as a streamer the iFi device would be placed immediately in front of the electrocimpaniet ethernet connection  

As to linear power supplies - my thought process is if your Trendnet switch is not plugged into to same circuit as your audio system, adding LPS to it is unlikely to make any difference. I would add LPS to the SGC and add good Ethernet cables throughout with the best one feeding your streamer. 

Thanks for all the suggestions.!

Im using a LHY SW-6.  Works great.    Using the fiber port to a media converter then to Aurender N200

An interesting thought.  I realized that I run my network switch through my power conditioner ( a Digi Buss ).  The maker of which commented that that should be "cleaning' the power.  So perhaps an iFi X power supply would not add much to the mix.  I wonder whether an optical isolator would be beneficial in that setting.