alekz;258577 Wrote: > <joke> > Properly broken-in LSD might work better then Shiraz. You don't even > need the cables. > </joke> > > > <serious> > I wonder if: > o- a shielded ethernet cable can create ground loops. > o- a fiber cable "sounds" better than a copper one. Despite the > transformer coupling and differential schemes the "copper" brings noise > directly into the unit. > </serious>
No. You have to ask yourself if a $3m UNIX server running an Oracle financials app that passes requests to an Z/OS backend db (mainframe based) over IP!!!! worries about these things. Because their 1s and 0s are a heck of a lot more important than an audio 1 or 0. And I know you are not worrying about the signal as it in the packet in the cable but the impact of an electrical charge that the packet in the cable creates on the surrounding electronics, but the answer is still clearly, demonstrably no. I don't mean to single anybody out, because the question I think was asked in earnest by somebody that probably doesn't undestand Ethernet really well. Well, in comparison to a Cisco engineer, I don't either, but I know enough to know that the notion is complete nonsense. Again, I am not putting it that way to be offensive but to put doubt to rest for anybody that is remotely open minded about this (ie. everybody who is just wondering, and doesn't think CAT6 will sound "warmer" and more "holographic" than CAT5 or some such nonsense). -- 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
