AQVox AQ-SWITCH-8

[Confused]

perhaps my question is not very clear. I read in this forum that a lot of members enjoyed the optical bridge or optical network. So i wonder if this aqvox switch, before an optical bridge, will bring something in better sound quality.

This is a difficult one to answer, and to be honest there are not many people who have even tried the Aqvox switch yet, let alone tried one with and without an optical bridge.

It is perhaps worth considering that in some respects an optical bridge and the Aqvox switch are attempting to mitigate exactly the same problem.  That is elimination of noise and electro magnetic interference.  So using both is adding complexity in an attempt to solve a problem twice.  That said, an optical bridge may perform this function better than the Aqvox, who knows?  Also, the network bridge may invoke some negatives.  That said, for me it is a case that using both would be overly complex and unnecessary.  Reading the more recent posts in Antoine's system thread in this forum might provide some insights into this.

Of course, the Aqvox also claims to reduce jitter and includes reclocking.  I have to be honest here, I do not understand why this should help with Ethernet data transmission, consider the protocol's use of packet data and so on.  That said, there is now a lot of evidence that connecting devices like the microRendu via direct Ethernet connection improves sound quality.  This does not make sense to me either, but there are a lot of folk that have tried this now and report that indeed it does work.