I bought a 10m CAT6 cable and it cost a fiver. The delivery cost more and it works as expected, because it's the right spec. I have it connected from my 4G router, to my Audiolab Omnia. I don't know what people are expecting, when they use a really expensive cable and find there is no difference. The cable is sending zeros and ones and so long as they all get through, they supply the relevant information, from the sender, to the receiver. Whatever data you are sending, does not get 'polished' via the expensive cable. There is a CAT5 or CAT6 spec etc. and that's it. The zeros and ones going through, don't 'see' the better quality cable, or materials, or fancy design etc. They can't be transferred with 'better quality'. It really is nonsense. Avoid stuff like this:
Over the past several years there’s been a revolution in the way people store, distribute, and access digital media (in real time), including photos, movies, and, of course, music.
www.futureshop.co.uk
and buy some more decent HIFI kit. If cables were made of pure silver and all the rarest, expensive materials, they still wouldn't send data better, than an industry standard LAN cable. The page says: 'The Cat 7 cable standard has been created to allow 10- Gigabyte Ethernet over 100 m of copper cabling', which is true, but this is a short cable, where CAT5 would do the job and how many people send 10Gb a second, over 100m? I work in IT and only massive datacentres, would need anything like CAT7 and they wouldn't buy it from Audioquest. These expensive cables, are there to take advantage of the unwary, with deep pockets and those with little understanding of cable standards and what cables can, or can't do. These pricey cables are massively over the top and the materials and designs, will not change the information they carry. The specs are a mixture of facts, which won't make a difference and made up jargon, that has no meaning, in relation to what the cable does. Just say some big, technical words and people will fall for it. Well, I don't. If you send a print job, from a PC, down the network cable, to the switch and back through another network cable, to a printer, you get a printout. The image quality is due to the printer and settings and drivers on the PC etc. If you installed expensive cabling, you wouldn't get a better quality printout. LAN cables carry data, not sound. It gets turned into sound, with the DAC or whatever, at the other end. The data they carry cannot have sound quality, or be improved with different materials etc. So many people are being brainwashed by these companies and these companies are laughing at their gullible customers, throwing their money away on nonsense. I do believe some people think they can hear a difference, but this will be other factors. Physics, scientific consensus and testing has proven, that a fancy cable, is not capable of affecting sound quality. No part of it, can make a difference. You can pay nearly £10000 for a 12m Audioquest LAN cable and people think this will improve sound quality etc. It won't. A previous post above, from djh1697 accurately stated that these zeros and ones, have already travelled through very average copper cabling, to get to your broadband device. An extra 12m of £10000 LAN cable, will not make those zeros and ones more capable of producing film/movie/video/music etc. Also, the CAT7 'standard' is total overkill for any domestic installation:
What is Cat7 - and why you don’t need it. (cablematters.com)