Basic switch....should I upgrade?

@jerrybj

You have done some interesting stuff. But I haven’t heard you say anything about the differences you have hear in your system as a result of your changes. What have you observed? Reduction in noise floor? Dynamics? Small difference, big?

The amount of things you guys are trying is astonishing. But none of it works, and a lot of it is counter to how Ethernet works. For instance, for audio listening (not two way like voip), latency is irrelevant. The change in latency matters however, and if packets arrive out of order. Another things, the only possible outcome of taping batteries to an Ethernet cable is that you introduce CRC Frame errors, which the will force the switch to discard the frame, and higher level protocols to trigger a retransmission. 
 

pro audio applications use enterprise equipment, not made up cures but introducing voodoo into the chain, and adding things. 
 

maybe it is just me, but in general for my audio setup, I like to Keep It Simple, the fewer components, the better, since adding will only add to the signal, which means you have modified the recording in transit from source to speaker, and that is not audiophile grade. 

Now you have stated your opinion (many times), there is no need for you to post any more. Thank you for your views.

@ghdprentice 

The weird situation I find myself in means  my system is down.

So have been adding to/changing my system. Which is why I haven't told you how these changes effects. Will get to try it in a couple of months. 

FWIW, I switched (pun) from a cheap D-Link to this and am very happy with the results. https://englishelectric.uk/8-switch/

There are too many variables to possibly account for with streaming audio. Again, my humble op. The streamer, the DAC, the type and design of the cable connecting the two let alone the quality of the internet service, router, switch, location of all the aforementioned....

For example, for better or worse, we have ATT Uverse which means our household internet comes in through a single "box" (combined access point, receiver, and network switch). The main router supplied by ATT sits next to it. They are in our family room. My dedicated listening room is forty feet away and on the same floor. I had no to run an ethernet cable under the floor joists to my listening room. So I have a repeater router plugged in in the basement with a short generic ethernet cable to the above switch with a twenty foot generic ethernet cable running under the floor joists closer to my listening room and up through the wall to an ethernet receptical. Is that optimum? Nope. But with my Aurender W20 connected by a custom Analysis Plus S/PDIF cable to my SW1X DACIII Balanced and using Qobuz I am very happy with the sound quality compared to my pretty good vinyl rigs (see my profile if interested).

I find it interesting that in so many of these posts on the subject of digital the people posting with opinions don’t have their systems listed in their profiles and don’t reference them. How do we know if your opinions are compromised by loudspeakers placed right up against the wall with a huge flat screen in the middle due to WAF?

And then add into the equation that the technology involved is relatively new, particularly with the streaming side of things. Who was relying on streaming just five to six years ago?