Cross-linking to fibreoptic thread Anyone tried ADOT fibre network connectivity?
in case you want to pick up the trail over there.
Basically two different approaches to tackling the same challenge of stopping RFI/EMI noise reaching the DAC. As you’ve discovered, optical’s theoretical advantage can be limited in practice due to noise generated by the media converters themselves (and I include their power supplies here). In neither case is there any digital magic, both fibre optic and ethernet switches are digital boxes deployed to analogue effect. No bits are harmed or enhanced in the process!