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The network is part of the signal path.
Switch X is DeJitter It's answer to a question most systems never ask: what reaches your converter before the music does.
Why we take a network switch seriously
We spend our careers on the parts of a system that are supposed to matter — the converter, the amplification, the loudspeakers, the room. For a long time the network switch was furniture: it moved packets, and that was the end of the conversation.
What changed our mind was listening. DeJitter It's design premise is that the noise riding an ordinary home network — broadcast chatter, the constant housekeeping of a household's devices — can reach the final converter in a resolving system. In our Private Listening Room, taking the audio network off the household network has meant quieter backgrounds, easier dynamics, and longer listening sessions. Switch X exists to put that premise into practice.
We distribute DeJitter It because this is engineering we can stand behind and demonstrate. In the systems we build, the network has become part of the foundation.
What Switch X actually does
An isolated island
Switch X creates its own network — its own address space, separated from the household — so audio devices are cut off from house-network chatter while keeping the internet path they were designed to use.
Noise stopped at the boundary
Broadcast packet noise from the home network is blocked from reaching audio gear. Ports 1–4 face the house; ports 5–8 form the clean, isolated audio side. The home network only ever enters at one designated point.
Low-noise throughout
De-jittered interfaces, regulated voltages, and low phase-noise clocks across every port — with optical, Ethernet, and direct-attach flexibility to match each connected device.
Our introduction, in the Private Listening Room
From the independent record
- ReviewIndependent listening assessment; directs readers to GTT for demonstration.
- DiscussionConfiguration and context, with demonstration and audition through GTT.
- VideoThird-party video coverage of the Switch X and WiFi X.
- Award“I am giving one of my 2025 Brutus Awards to Chris Stephens and DeJitter It for the finest Ethernet system that I've ever heard.” — Dr. David Robinson, Positive Feedback
Questions we hear in the listening room
Does the network really affect what I hear?
In a resolving system, yes — and the way to prove it is to remove it. When audio devices are cut off from household broadcast chatter, the change is not more detail but less work: quieter backgrounds, easier dynamics, longer listening. That is what convinced us.
How does it fit into my system?
Switch X keeps the internet path your devices were designed to use while isolating them from the household network. We map the right configuration to the actual network during an audition or a system consultation — Episodes 121 and 146 on our channel walk through real setups.
Do I need WiFi X as well?
WiFi X is relevant when the audio system relies on household Wi-Fi; it extends the same isolation to wireless devices. A wired system may require only Switch X — the answer depends on the network topology. We determine the right answer for the actual network.
Further reading
- GTT PressSwitch X — Introduction
- GTT PressSwitch X — Positive Feedback
- GTT PressSwitch X — Roon Settings
- ReferenceDigital Playback & DACs
- PortfolioThe DeJitter It Portfolio
- ArchiveThe Full Press Archive
- GTT PressSwitch X and WiFi X — The Audio Analyst
- GTT PressSwitch-X and WiFi-X — Positive Feedback conversation
- GTT PressWiFi X — Positive Feedback
- GTTDeJitter It News and Switch X
Private Audition
Hear the quiet for yourself
GTT is the worldwide distributor for DeJitter It. Switch X is auditioned in a complete streaming system, by confirmed appointment, in our Private Listening Room in Long Valley, New Jersey.