$340 AudioQuest Ethernet Cable only tests out marginally

[jinjuku]

1.5 Meter (roughly 5 foot) section of $340 AudioQuest Vodka cable could barely eek into the margin of 6A testing.

http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/bjc-vodka-640x419.png

What this means according to Kurt Denke of Blue Jeans Cable is that the cable he tested may actually fail on another calibrated certification tool.

So basically it's getting bested by more than fair margins by run of the mill $10-12 BJC cable.

This testing was done at my request by Lee Hutchinson over at ArsTechnica.

Here is my original post, before the analysis, where upon seeing the cable tear down I immediately called into question the NEXT performance (near end cross talk) of the AudioQuest Vodka cable (it's also the sole promoted post on the main story page).

http://arstechnica.com/civis/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=18394

 

[markw]

...but ...but ...but the Audioquest Ethernet cable was designed to pass good sound, not data. Test equipment doesn't have ears so the test is invalid.

 

[highfigh]

Should they have tried this test using Cramolin on the connections? Maybe that would have made the AudioQuack cable sound better.

 

[djreef]

Should they have tried this test using Cramolin on the connections? Maybe that would have made the AudioQuack cable sound better.

Absolutely. I've heard that the chemical components of such are sourced from a very mysterious deep dark region of Kraplakistan.