Ron Olsen;684561 Wrote: > Any cat 5e or cat 6 Ethernet cable will work and produce identical > results. Spending lots of money on "audiophile" Ethernet cable is > foolish. > > You can buy terminated Belden cat 5e cable for around $1/ft. No need to > spend more. http://www.bluejeanscable.com/store/data-cables/index.htm > > I'm copying my music and video library from one server to another on my > network over generic cat 5e Ethernet cable. 1.8 TB of data. All of it > will be exactly correct at the receiving end due to multiple layers of > error detection and correction in the data transmission protocols. > > Look elsewhere to improve audio quality.
Spending lots of money on ANY "audiophile" cable IS foolish. That was NOT my suggestion. While data transmission is not affected by choice of Ethernet cables, that may not necessarily mean there is no difference in the audio one hears. (See my previous post and Phil Leigh's response on post #316) at http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=91322&page=32 Would I rewire the house in search of improvements in the sound? No. But if I could test the difference with a short run of cat6, as I did, why not? It was only $15 and worth every dime to me. Of course, no guarantee it would work for someone else. But it might. Guido F. -- guidof MUSIC ROOM: Marantz TT 15S1 Turntable, Virtuoso Wood Cartridge->Conrad Johnson Motif preamp Oppo BDP-83 Universal Player->Cambridge Azur 840C DAC Vortexbox Appliance->WiFi Bridge->Squeezebox Touch->Toslink->Cambridge Azur 840C DAC->Adcom GFP-750 preamp->Music Reference RM-200 Mk II amp -> Martin Logan SL3s DSpeaker Antimode 8033->REL T1 Sub BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch (analog out)->Little Dot Mk III amp->AKG K701 headphones SECOND BEDROOM: Squeezebox Touch->Grado SR125 headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ guidof's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40448 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92924 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
