If you want to go down a deep, dark, sad rabbit hole, look in to the digital audio part of the "audiophile" world. For me it began when I looked at a friend's

If you want to go down a deep, dark, sad rabbit hole, look in to the digital audio part of the "audiophile" world. For me it began when I looked at a friend's catalogue that had a $2,500 (25 years ago) CD player that claimed incredible fidelity in part because they bathed the underside of the disc with blue light while reading with a red laser, as though this somehow made reading the bits better. I explained to my friend that barring scratches and speed fluctuations, bits are bits, and none of that matters one iota until you get to the digital to analogue stage. My example was that you could write the data on strips of cloth from old pyjamas using free crayons that restaurants give to kids, put them in Dixie Cups and transport them across the Sahara on camelback, and so long as you reassemble them in the right order, the bits will be identical to the bits from a $2,500 CD player. He's a brilliant guy, but it took him longer to understand what I was saying than I could've predicted. The whole thing - the scammy market, the FUD, the bullshit, the desire to believe - was and still is fascinating, albeit sad. Someone somewhat recently did a review, if you can call it that, of "audiophile" ethernet switches. Yes, they want you to believe that the bits somehow are better if you send them using their special ethernet switches. Might be worth a quick search.