@nonoise ok, so first of, Microtik is a low end manufacturer that does everything in the CPU.
Then he says it ground canals on the circuit board, and that is complete wrong, you don't run ground from the SFP to the CPU, you run it to the ground.
Continuing - he says "electrical" jitter. There is no such thing. Does not exist, just made up to sound good I guess?
The reason it is "clean" is because it doesn't use FPGA, everything is run to 1 CPU. It's cheap designed, but for home use it won't matter.
Then he goes on and says that it is 10GBit chip, powerful and then says no one talks about the chip. Well, most modern designs don't use a CPU, they use FPGA, and then he talks about the throughput, yeah, every single switch worth its name is talking about it in specs, and not just jumbo frame throughput, but small frame throughput and frames per second.
he is however right about the more powerful the CPU is, the less jitter it will introduce. However, this is one of the reason why good switches don't use a CPU, they use FPGA.
Then he goes on a rant about double regulated voltage, also bunch of made up things. It does not improve stability of any component because it can handle two separate voltages. In fact, most higher end audio equipment like my Classe stack does the opposite to have more pure operation based on the voltage you use. So opposite of what he states.
"Dedicated ethernet port and dedicated isolation gadget" - oh my, where do I start here??? All made up again, according to the manufacture again, it's a LAN management port chip, nothing to do with isolation, link below.
https://www.xmultiple.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/XTFZ-PC13N1ZH.pdf
So, there you have it. Another "audiophile" switch debunked!
