HumanMedia;687295 Wrote: > So this is your suggestion? > Just bitter unhelpful sarcasm? > > You hadn't even read the OP where he, like me, already uses a wireless > bridge to connect to the Squeezbox. A bridge that is designed to > radiate RF and an ethernet cable connecting it to the Squeezebox. And > the cable in high likelihood is picking up a huge amount of this RF. > Whether or not this has an effect on final sound is yet to be > determined. And what easier way to determine this (in the absence of > vastly more expensive measuring equipment) is by trying a $12 shielded > ethernet cable tied to ground at the wireless router end, or an even > cheaper generic unshielded cable - so why not try it out? > > And if it makes a difference then thats a pretty good way of > determining if it actually was a problem in the first place. If not > then it has verified that it wasn't a problem - a position that one > wouldn't be in unless one had actually tried it. I'm sorry if you find my post offensive, but the OP did not say that he was particularly concerned about RF from the wireless bridge itself. In fact many people on this forum have argued that it is essential to get rid of the switchmode psu on the wireless bridge which will otherwise inject noise. maybe that is the probelm (IF THERE IS A PROBLEM)
It remains the case that he is concerned about some unspecified bad stuff. Let's suppose it is RF. Now if the touch is relatively close to the bridge, why worry about RF from the ethernet cable itself when it might just as easily be the touch itself which picks up the RF direct. Is there any reason to believe that a wireless bridge trasnmits rf down any ethernet cable attached to it. if so is it doing so because the cable acts as an antenna, or because the shield acts as an antenna or because the wireless bridge directly injects this along the signal carrying wire? AS Phuil's post shows, if you identify what it is you are concerned about then someone can systematically attempt see whether there is any evidence that that particular problem exists. If it does exist then there may be a solution which works for that particular problem. But lets face it the differences in the sound from doing all of this is going to be very slight and depending on temperament is likely to induce either unjustified certainty or debilitating doubt. It not like having a ground loop where you will definitely know when you have solved it. Here the OP doesn't even know whether there is a problem. Given that OP doesn't know whether he has a problem at all, let one which probelm, just buying cable with either no shielding or a different sort of shielding isn't a very systemtic way of dealing with it. It seems to me like going to a pharmicist, uncertain of whether you are ill and taking every medicine from a-z to see whether you feel better. -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93316 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
