Network cable rabbit hole

An Ethernet switch is a repeater. (It also remembers network addresses so it can send data out the intended destination, as opposed to a hub, which repeats the data on all ports, creating traffic all over the network.) It sends exactly what it receives. It won’t clean up the data stream. Unless your cable is over 300 feet, you have no need for a switch. It’s just another possible point of failure. Believe it or not, a good quality CAT6 cable is all you need to get binary packets quite safely and cleanly from point A to point B. Keep the cable away from fluorescent lights and AC motors. 

I use a cd player it's all in the one or two boxes ha ha.but great discussions on zero and ones and how it's transfered and jitter is real as I had it this am in my left arm listening to country music no offence.😃

@total111 I think you misunderstood some of what I was saying and took some other things out of context. Which is fine. 
The EtherREGEN reclocking of the signal is questionable because. Timing is imbedded in the signal by the router and EtherREGEN will do as much as a decent switch with that, at the most. Hence the test results reported by OP.
I never said a cable alone will fix jitter.
You can use a $1000 EtherREGEN or however much it costs or any decent switch to the same effect. You can use fiber converters that also introduce noise, both electrical on the way out to copper, and AC because they are plugged in using cheap wall wart SMPS. You can change those out to LPS. You can do whatever you want.
I’m over and out as far as this goes. 

 

@mggartner correct you don’t need a switch. You only need a good Ethernet cable. 
but 12’ of cable that I would choose for my system for example is pretty expensive. That’s why I mentioned a switch. You can also use a passive lan filter as a junction point but run highest quality cable into streamer

@audphile1 Define "highest" quality. I would argue that for this case -as somebody wrote above- a stiff patch cable (which is solid core) is highest quality and making it gold or anything else will NOT increase any relevant performance parameter in order to transfer ethernet signals.

I am both, objectivist but also a believer (litteraly). To find the balance in this hobby matters to me. I would agree that some things cannot be adequately described with our physics, but a lot can. Digital signals are pretty straightforward (and yes, they carry parasitic voltages potentially, but you will NEVER get rid of them with an expensive cable). DROP the cat8 cable and get a Etherregen witch does a lot to clean up the signal.