@x5owner1 Hans is a crackpot who regurgitates stuff he read on the Internet as gospel without any comprehension, in this case the many times debunked “white paper” from John Swenson.
a switch does not reclock anything. It is not what it does. And if you knew anything about Ethernet and TCP/IP, you would know it is impossible.
below is a description what a switch uses it’s clock for.
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No benefits. Network jitter has no impact either as the data is buffered ahead of DAC processing in any case.
The clock in the switch does nothing for the timing of audio. It's there to periodically synchronise the bit-timing for data transmission/reception. Contrary to marketing claims of some "audiophile" switches and routers, clocks in networking devices do not synchronise with other clocks in other devices - timing signals are encoded within the data stream; it's an asynchronous transmission medium.
Bit times for Gigabit Ethernet are at 1 nanosecond. Standard clocks on enterprise Gigabit Ethernet switches run at about 125MHz in most cases which equated to a cycle of about 7.5ns; completely logical when you realise that the clock does not need to resync the bitrate on every bit.”