Network Cables

[Teetertotter?]

@mtrycrafts, sorry to have ruffled your feathers.

 

[mtrycrafts]

@mtrycrafts, sorry to have ruffled your feathers.

You didn't. I guess I came across wrongly.

 

[Bobby Bass]

The lead article in the Absolute Sound email I just received was about cables. Here’s the bottom line. Only 400K+ for the starter set.

 

[lovinthehd]

Man that is some serious insanity, but typical for AS

 

[justinfalder]

My Cat 5e cables[internet] are from my Cat 5e modem outputs, to my TV, Satellite DVR, and Denon AVR, purchased from Cable Wholesale. My HDMI cables are ZesKit Certified, purchased from Amazon. Picture and sound quality, could not be better + speed.
No mess, no fuss, as they say.

Do you have any more cable stories? Sound nursk .

 

[highfigh]

Hello! I am new to the forum.

I do a fair bit of streaming and chanced upon some discussion/ads regarding network cables (e.g. CAT 5/6, etc). I have seen some of Gene's videos on digital cables and believe that he makes sense. That said, there are network cables out there for thousands of dollars. That doesn't make sense to me. The network signal needs to come to the house, through my modem, router, cable in the walls, and finally to my player. I do not see how spending a lot of money on a boutique network cable can make any difference at all. The ads seem to have typical subjective claims, without any objective data..

Is there a consensus of opinion? I would appreciate your thoughts.

Thanks

Fred

When cables costing thousands of dollars makes sense, worry about your sanity.

Cable standards are set with an eye toward future possibilities, but to be honest, the most advanced only matter when high capacity (speed and data ) is an absolute requirement. For streaming, Cat5e is just fine and it can do gigbit up to about 100 meters.

And don't bite on the optical connectors with gold plating- there's no electical connection from end to end, so that's absolutely unnecessary.

 

[highfigh]

Definitely cheap solutions available
Tester

Crimper

For just a few dollars more you can get some premium products. My tester wasn't cheap, but it is multi function including tone out.

Why the hell did you give me a thumbs down for my other reply in post 20?

 

[jinjuku]

When cables costing thousands of dollars makes sense, worry about your sanity.

Cable standards are set with an eye toward future possibilities, but to be honest, the most advanced only matter when high capacity (speed and data ) is an absolute requirement. For streaming, Cat5e is just fine and it can do gigbit up to about 100 meters.

And don't bite on the optical connectors with gold plating- there's no electical connection from end to end, so that's absolutely unnecessary.

CAT5e is 1/10/100/1000/2500/5000 to 100 meters (328 feet), 10000 to 145 feet.

BUT CAT5e really hasn't been a widely implemented cable spec for at least 15 years.

It's all 6/6A.

The real issue that no one from the delusional side of things will show or answer: 1Gbps Ethernet is a 125Mhz clock. You need to explain how anyone on earth can hear that or how it affects the DAC reconstruction filter.

Ethernet is 100% galvonically isolated.. Total air gap.

Then the last fact is we are playing from at rest data. Jitter has nothing to do with it because you are buffering. Tidal for instance will buffer your entire track. If you have 300Mbps Internet tidal will literally buffer the entire song you are listening to in about 1.5 seconds. You can literally pull the plug and the song will play back in it's entirety.

That means you need to be able to tell me when the cable is plugged in or removed. Because that 420 second track you started playing 3 seconds ago is already transferred and there is no network jitter to worry about.

 

[Golfx]

Bluejean cables has some informational articles as well as tested/verified cables for sale.

Is Your Cat 6 Cable a Dog? -- Blue Jeans Cable