GuyDebord;257620 Wrote: > Any CAT 5 or 6 ethernet cable is super shielded, its standard is made > for critical networks with runs in the hundreds of feet and where > critical data with serious bandwidth is passing through (unlike music), > audible RF/EMI would be a joke. If this is the case, then even the > screws in the metal chassis of your gear should be changed for ultra > audiophile grade audioquest incredibly expensive pieces of plastic. > > By the way "amcluesent", I think slimcenter running on a mac sounds > better than in linux or window, lets start a thread..... or better a > new forum dedicated to snake oil.
Exactly correct. And sorry, I may be new here, but I have seen this fallacy a few times on this board: Ethernet is not subject to data loss or data out of order, period. The protocol implementation manages this transparently (as long as we are talking TCP not UDP). Nor does the amount of shielding matter as long as it is CAT5--walk into a modern data centre one day if you can, and look and you will see tens/hundreds of ethernet cables bound together either under the floor or in cable trays about your head. And those cables will be carrying financial transactions, customer records, web data, video, etc. Without dropping so much as a zero or a one out of trillions of packets (or if they do, that is what the checksum is for in the packet, and the retransmit packet in the protocol). And, just for grins, wireless is the same. You may get more packet loss, for a variety of reasons including a weak signal or congested frequencies, but a packet received and checksummed is good. Period. Always. -- Apparition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apparition's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14825 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42094 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
