For me, this raises the question whether a worse LAN cable between the router and the switch will now let everything collapse again. I stay with Lisa Batiashvili and choose the song "No Better Magic", composed by and performed with Katie Melua. With this song I can't perceive that much of a difference. However, to me the cheap cable appears to be a bit flatter and less intense in the tonal colours compared to the Audioquest Carbon. With the musically more complex piece "Body & Soul" from Nnenna Freelon Live, the class differences between the two cables become very obvious. So there is no money to be saved here, as that would be at the expense of the clear gains in timbre, conciseness and order. The Audioquest Cat700Carbon does it considerably better. A similar, although in comparison to the cheap Cat cable smaller loss of quality I experienced when connecting the TP-Link nano router TL-WR802N to the Ansuz switch as a WLAN client, or better, as an external WLAN receiver. After all, it had been connected to the switch with one of the three Ansuz Acoustics Digitalz Ethernet Cable A2. Even now the playback lacked a clear structure: The Audioquest hadn’t lost any of its qualitative preeminence. As a result from this listening comparison, the question about the purpose of a switch, even without following its actual task as a distributor of data, can be answered with a clear "it makes sense because it sounds better". This is because of its filter effect. Anyone who invests in a switch even under such conditions can benefit from the sonic enhancement and is thus technically prepared for a further expansion of his music network. However, the switch is no substitute for a high-quality connector cable. Very soon Dirk Sommer will reveal in a test whether a low-cost optical Ethernet connection is a good solution, or not. This is where we stop for today, ...to be continued in a few days.