@fastfreightCurious to hear if you think the GTT Audio SwitchX improves on the JCAT M12 Gold w/Jact power. In addition to the Jcat you are also using the MUON w/ the Jcat??? PM if you like.

I also have the Jcat gear coming up from the EtherREgen (and it was good).

@fastfreight How's SwitchX & Wifi X testing coming along?

I'll keep the JCat but I'm working on another system that requires cleaning up  ethernet. Just looked a t JCat and the Gold is no longer offered but now there is a Jcat Premium/improved switch. 

You bought the SwitchX​​​​​​​ & Wifi X Audio & Video. Right?  Do they allow a thirty day test?

@fastfreight

I’m trying to imagine how to implement in my house.

The house is clad in metal & Galvalume. Wifi is needed for cellular service.

In an upstairs closet is “control central” where the house’s Ethernet web starts. In the house are several Ubiquiti mesh devices; the closest to the hard wired streamer fourty plus feet away around a corner. The streamer is in a closet as well.

In an unplumbed small out building is my “shop” with another stereo system in the works. There’s wired Ethernet in there too. SwitchX and WifiX could go there too but that defeats a “clean” house. Further more into the crappy switch in shop is an Ubiquiti security camera keeping an eye on my tools, etc.

@fastfreigh Maybe one of the contributing factors to the streamer (we have the same one) sounding so fringing good (ok the current DAC in the mix too) is that in the stereo closet  the streamer and DAC are shielded from WIFI interference?

I'm on the cusp of trying the Switch X & Wifi X but it ain't broke and yet I'll fix it. How's that for a deffiniton of an audiophile?

Better yet, are we chasing sound that we experienced when sixteen? Are we trying to keep an audio link to our youth thus defining age? Endorphins any way they come are very good for the soul.

@lalitk I' also thinking of getting the Opt Bridge 1000M Optical Isolator.   I wonder it if it requires the special ethernet cabling?  Marcin (of JCAT) will know.  Have a n open rail /cord from the Cat PSU.

@fastfreight I did read; you bet. Thanks. (Page three for you cut to the chase types) I will not steal your thunder/thoughts and post a spoiler here.

Chaining the JCat and Tempus goes against the shibboleth of less is more but I don't doubt you either. 

I was impressed with the very cordial and cicil tone on What's Best.

@lalitk Bingo; but I suspect that given so many up have less than perfect rooms (the most important and perhaps most neglected component) if if it sounds great  for a person (he, she, they, them, x, xemself (saw that one last week)) then that's the ticket. The JCat and Grimm for me were the Brass rings. Make the Grimm a gold one. Next up for me is a try out of Edgar Y. Choueiri's BAACH system. Box is waiting to be unpacked.