Relationship between Ethernet Switch and SQ


This one will probably invite some withering mockery, but I will ask....

I only stream, and my streamer (Bryston BDP) is fed with an ethernet cable that runs back to my router.  Literally back to my router; there are enough output jacks on the router that I have a long run to the streamer and no ethernet switch in the chain (or the house system for that matter).   (There is an Eno filter right before the streamer).

I happen to OWN a nice LHY ethernet switch.  I am assuming that there is no reason to use it in this configuration, that is, assuming there are noisier switches, and less noisy switches, there is still no net benefit of adding any switch to this chain.  But maybe, just maybe, in the metaphysics of electrons that I do not understand, there is some reason why a nice switch prior to the streamer accomplishes something (in theory...I get that I can A/B test and try to fool myself whether I can hear a difference).  For the first person with a correct answer, I will mail a nice $600 switch to the address you specify! (JK)

mathiasmingus

fredrik222

... I get why people want to be in the cult of anti facts ...

Of course. That's your world.

It's quite funny someone mentioned the word trolls, and someone else responded to it like someone called their name. 

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So I'll show my (potential) lack of knowledge, the stream coming in to your modem and router is digital.  It's 1s and 0s.  Why would we be concerned about noise along an ethernet cable.  Noise doesn't come into play until the signal's past the DAC? What am I missing?