Update on good Ethernet switch

I have to wonder why these “IT Professionals” who obviously are not into audio peruse and troll these pages. I doubt any of them have actually designed and spec’d networking components. More likely they sit in windowless rooms building PCs for employees, push software updates to company PCs, route ethernet cables across the plant and office and install new data servers. The closest they get to an audio application is plugging in new network phones. (Which sound awful).

None of them have yet to rationally explain using math or measurement data why digital transmission of music is not affected by the gear or cabling whereas measurement data can show faults in the data stream due to power supply issues, EMI and affects of wire capacitance, etc. (They will deny the facts as quickly as they deny we hear a difference). Instead they always take the agnostic approach claiming we cannot hear what we are hearing and it’s impossible to alter the sound of digital. They can beat that drum all they want but this audio hobby will continue to press forward with new ideas and new discoveries. I’m reminded of the derision people faced for buying “fancy” speaker cables in the 1980s.

Maybe we should all pitch in a buy them a window.

I neither wish to converse with you nor answer what I find irrelevant questions.

You knowledge is of no use to me.

I find your arrogance very disconcerting and bothersome, and of no help in any way.

(And this time your attack on my intelligence was a little less subtle).

Good.  You’re finally getting it.  But let me help you understand the meaning of arrogance.  Babe Ruth was a baseball player.  Perhaps you have heard of him.  When he stepped up to the batting plate he would point his bat at the stands indicating where he was going to hit the ball.  More often than not he would put the ball right where he pointed.  That is confidence.  Other ball players would step up to the plate and point their bat at the stands too.  Only they had very little chance of hitting the ball let alone putting it into the stands.  That is arrogance.

From my point of view you are arrogant because you have neither shown us your stereo system or demonstrated any knowledge of audio or acknowledged that someone can hear a difference in streaming audio.

Fred, unless you have built stereo systems for yourself or others or worked in the audio industry your IT related comments are not relevant. 
it is like me asking my plumber which power cord to buy for my amp. 

Unless, of course, my plumber is into audio. I’m sure he can afford it.