Don't forget he will need one of these too ......A Cat5e cable with decent connectors on the end, costs about £3 for 1m on Amazon.
Bill
A Cat5e cable with decent connectors on the end, costs about £3 for 1m on Amazon.
Bill
A Cat5e cable with decent connectors on the end, costs about £3 for 1m on Amazon.
Bill
Don’t bother, as providing the cable matches the Ethernet cable standards (Cat5, Cat6 etc.) and has decent connectors then it doesn’t matter if you pay £3 or £3000 for a cable as the performance will be identical. (Any other claims are just sales marketing (Including so called audiophile Ethernet cables)Do most people on here use the bog standard cheap grey ethernet cables then? I was wondering if anybody had splashed out on one of the very expensive exotic ones from the likes of Audioquest or The Chord Company?
I ran a review site for a year - 13th note hifi reviews, and was quite happy to put down poor products. I never advocating going crazy on cables , started to realise most expensive HiFi cables are ridiculous (which I revised my view on since last being on this site) and I told HiFi firms I didn’t want their expensive cables. The ethernet cabling im talking about would cost very little. I sold my 1m chord tuned array cables long agoNo Simon , the effect and advertising by cable manafactuaring companies are just BS. Your equipment or set up , components and source. They are nothing to do with the fact that a cat cable is a cat cable. What it does for s few pounds a metre is exactly what one costing a thousand pounds a metre does.
You obviously will never believe this, that's cool as long as it is your money you are spending.
I honestly couldn’t believe what I was reading when I first saw that. Won’t make a blind bit of difference over a decent ‘normal’ network switch.Don't forget he will need one of these too ......
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As a scientist I really wanted to believe that cables don't make a difference in the digital domain and I was keen to try to be scientific about testing this. That would certainly have saved me a lot of money if all cables sound the same. But then, having recently upgraded my DAC, I compared three digital coax cables of different brands and prices doing blind a v b comparisons with the help of my wife and alas I COULD tell a difference 80% of the time across listening to 4 different tracks, this was repeatable and my preferred cable stayed the same each time. Sadly, for me, my preferred cable was the most expensive one. So, if cables can make a difference with the 0s and 1s going through a digital coax cable, I think in theory they could affect the data transmitted through an Ethernet cable. That's my take on it but I know there are many who share your view that it's all snake oil.You won't need to spend more than a tenner. For music, Cat5e is more than enough for the data throughput needed. For 4K or 8K video and hi-res soundtrack, you might want to look at a higher standard. Just get one that's well built and not flimsy, most aren't. By all means spend hundreds on one from a boutique manufacturer. Make sure you can return in 60 days if not satisfied however. Personally, I think they're a waste of money and almost as big a shill as MQA.
Been there done it with cables, both analogue and for digital purposes. Most recently an Audioquest Cinnamon USB, which originally went for about £100 or so. I bought one NOS a year or so back, had to pack some stuff up a while back and ended up with the stock USB cable that came with the external hard drive. Months later I was marvelling at the sound only to go round the back of the stereo and...yep. The Cinnamon was in its' box. I tried it out with my usual four favoured test tracks and the differences were, well, minimal at best (which I guess is my way of saying that if both were delivering the right sound for the tracks played, then you couldn't easily tell them apart). The Audioquest went on Ebay a few weeks ago, followed not long after by a couple of mains power cables.As a scientist I really wanted to believe that cables don't make a difference in the digital domain and I was keen to try to be scientific about testing this. That would certainly have saved me a lot of money if all cables sound the same. But then, having recently upgraded my DAC, I compared three digital coax cables of different brands and prices doing blind a v b comparisons with the help of my wife and alas I COULD tell a difference 80% of the time across listening to 4 different tracks, this was repeatable and my preferred cable stayed the same each time. Sadly, for me, my preferred cable was the most expensive one. So, if cables can make a difference with the 0s and 1s going through a digital coax cable, I think in theory they could affect the data transmitted through an Ethernet cable. That's my take on it but I know there are many who share your view that it's all snake oil.