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Originally Posted by JoeN

There's a fairly good possibility that we will be purchasing an Aurender A10 in the next month or so.

Problem is we only have one port in the Great Room and I have at least a Mac mini and Aurender to plug into it. I've always used Cisco in our homes before - but that is without a Streamer.

So, can anyone suggest an Audiophile grade Ethernet switch that's within reason?

Thanks in advance.

The Uptone Audio EtherREGEN at $640. No additional linear power supply required, either. Check out my post here: https://www.audioaficionado.org/showthread.php?t=46843

If you're lucky and order today, you might be able to get into the shipments scheduled for January, 2020.

In the interim, if your Cisco switch is connecting to your stereo system and using a Switch-Mode Power Supply, replace it with a linear power supply. Its creating high-impedance leakage currents that are getting down to your DAC. These leakage currents cause an increase in jitter and clock phase noise, which is audible.

You can get good wall-adapter style linear power supplies from Jameco for about $11 in various voltages and amperages.

Cheers.