In Reply to: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it posted by Sprezza Tura on January 6, 2015 at 11:26:10:
So you 'THINK' you hear a difference?
Why not just get a friend over to help swap some cables in a single blind fashion and see if you can clearly pick it out after 4 or 5 switches? If you do, let us know. If not then decide if you want to keep the cables based on esthetics, bragging rights and construction rather than sound quality.
Since we're generally talking short lengths like 50ft or so, there really should be no issue with data error, or 'noise' (whatever this means in error-free digital data communication). Also since there's buffering in the DAC (Ethernet is asynch by design), it doesn't make sense that jitter should intrude into the analogue output.
Since you're interested in facts, I do not believe there has *ever* been any demonstration that the DAC output is any different between a perfectly adequate errorless cable and any expensive alternative.
Have fun exploring and enjoy the tunes along the way :-).
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- RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Archimago 01/6/1511:57:56 01/6/15 (41)
- RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Sprezza Tura 12:23:58 01/6/15 (32)
- Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Archimago 14:48:39 01/6/15 (5)
- RE: Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Sprezza Tura 17:33:51 01/6/15 (4)
- RE: Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Mercman 17:42:00 01/6/15 (3)
- RE: Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Sprezza Tura 17:45:24 01/6/15 (2)
- RE: Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Mercman 18:01:06 01/6/15 (1)
- RE: Various CAT's and wireless devices en route,,, RE: ETHERNET CABLES: I'm losing it - Sprezza Tura 18:11:35 01/6/15 (0)
- What I'm losing is... - E-Stat 12:41:57 01/6/15 (25)
- RE: What I'm losing is... - Tony Lauck 16:35:02 01/6/15 (5)
- RE: What I'm losing is... - E-Stat 17:11:22 01/6/15 (4)
- RE: What I'm losing is... - Sprezza Tura 17:39:23 01/6/15 (3)
- Perhaps you might review the title of your post - E-Stat 18:16:57 01/6/15 (2)
- RE: Perhaps you might review the title of your post - Sprezza Tura 18:21:15 01/6/15 (1)
- " Ignore the sentence that mentions wireless." - E-Stat 05:54:25 01/7/15 (0)
- RE: What I'm losing is... - Sprezza Tura 13:29:55 01/6/15 (18)
- Ok - E-Stat 13:49:03 01/6/15 (17)
- RE: Ok - Sprezza Tura 17:30:35 01/6/15 (2)
- While some believe wi-fi to be - E-Stat 17:38:05 01/6/15 (1)
- RE: While some believe wi-fi to be - Sprezza Tura 17:40:59 01/6/15 (0)
- Wireless N bridge better than Touch... - Archimago 14:24:42 01/6/15 (13)
- Actually - E-Stat 14:32:51 01/6/15 (12)
- RE: Actually - Archimago 17:53:53 01/6/15 (11)
- To each his own - E-Stat 18:14:24 01/6/15 (10)
- RE: To each his own - Ugly 19:58:24 01/6/15 (1)
- RE: To each his own - E-Stat 05:48:38 01/7/15 (0)
- RE: To each his own - Tony Lauck 19:56:27 01/6/15 (7)
- RE: To each his own - Ugly 20:01:46 01/6/15 (6)
- RE: To each his own - Tony Lauck 20:41:21 01/6/15 (5)
- Perhaps, but - E-Stat 12:53:47 01/7/15 (4)
- RE: Perhaps, but - Tony Lauck 13:59:55 01/7/15 (3)
- Aren't we talking about devices - E-Stat 14:33:49 01/7/15 (2)
- RE: Aren't we talking about devices - Tony Lauck 16:11:56 01/7/15 (1)
- Somehow I'm thinking - E-Stat 16:58:24 01/7/15 (0)
- "demonstration that the DAC output is any different " - what about USB cables? - carcass93 12:11:35 01/6/15 (7)
- RE: "demonstration that the DAC output is any different " - what about USB cables? - fmak 23:35:49 01/6/15 (0)
- USB cables (again!)... RE: "demonstration that the DAC output is any different " - what about USB cables? - Archimago 17:48:28 01/6/15 (0)
- USB connection can be a little bit different - Dave_K 17:20:52 01/6/15 (4)
- RE: USB connection can be a little bit different - audioengr 14:50:18 01/13/15 (0)
- RE: USB connection can be a little bit different - audioengr 18:55:08 01/8/15 (0)
- RE: USB connection can be a little bit different - fmak 00:50:45 01/7/15 (0)
- Ethernet was designed to be galvanically isolated - Tony Lauck 20:10:23 01/6/15 (0)