Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ

"Packets are packets and its all just 1's and 0's."

You IT guys are 40 years behind.  This discussion started when CDs first came out.  It's been proven over and over that digital audio is more than the bit stream.  If it were not the case most of this equipment today would not exist.  In spite of the naysayers, digital audio has come a long way.  I listen to my digital rig now with immense pleasure.  It competes easily now with my analog rig and exceeds in some cases.  

Until you have heard a decent audio system for yourself with and without various digital components added in, all of you IT naysayers look like cavemen claiming heavier than air craft is impossible.  

Yes, the digital domain is different.  In the analog world, less is more.  ie. keeping the signal path short and clean is the best path to great sound.  In the digital world, analog noise on the transmission lines and power supplies and jitter manifests itself as analog noise, harshness in the highs and poor imaging/sound staging.  Jitter doesn't mean much looking at text on a computer screen but it is everything when it comes to streaming.  It looks to me that the money we spend on digital audio components is mostly for clocking accuracy to reduce jitter that was not even possible in the best labs a decade or two ago.  Sure, some people don't hear or care about the difference.  One of my brothers likes his Sony boombox over my stereo system.  He's not kidding.  To each his own.  But why oh why do you naysayers feel the need to prolong a 40+ year argument?  Go buy a Teac CD player made in 1983 at a garage sale and have yourself a ball.

My latest DAC has internal reclocking on the USB in and the AES and Coax in.  It wasn't cheap but it unquestionably sounds amazing.  Another thing with this DAC that I noticed is that the noise floor got even lower.  I used to could hear the noise floor lift up as a song was starting with my old, very good DAC.  It was like a prelude to the song.   Now, the music starts from a total black background.  That took some getting used to as well- the music starting from nowhere.

@tonywinga  no one has proven any of

your fanatical and fantastical claims, if they had people like John Swenson of UpTone wouldn’t be laughed out of every room he goes into. 

Fredrik, you are out of your league. 

@jji666 

We are here to share our experiences and simply suggesting to learn or form your opinion by experimenting. The idea is simply to try, you may or may not like result, and that's perfectly fine. This is a hobby not some scientific project where folks open to experimenting are under any obligation to provide evidence/proof for what we hear in our environment. 

You said, you are not here to troll but with a mindset of packets are packets and all else is audio bling, you fit the mold of someone who’s close-minded.