Mnyb wrote: > It is a slight possibility to inject noise at the last leg , but as > Archimagos measurment shows it does not actually happen in practice with > normal equipment he uses rather crummy switches etc to hammer in the > piont . And if the player has some of the shelf recovering circuit it > would also work just fine . > > The ethernet interface is engineered to be rather trouble free . It > would be rare exceptional cases when this do not work . It is two > current loops with isolation in both ends rather low impedance in bot > sender and reciever so it's not prone to pick up noise by design . > > In industrial environments you could sometimes use shielded cat cables , > but at home they are not necessary and actually could be one of these > rare cases when can get a noise problem ! so the default is not to use > shielded cat cables at home then you migth just connect the computer > ground to your hifi ground . > > So in practical use you don't see weird noise transfer that interfere > with the DAC it would pop out in this kind of test . > > And the kicker is that if you have this exceptionally rare problem an > audiophile cable is not the solution :) they don't provide anything you > could not get in another cable from a normal vendor . And if they do > it's often of spec " modifications " that makes them worse than standard > cables .
ah ... funny enough I thought that the point made by these guys was the noise generated BY the cable that could impact the D/A process (again in very close proximity - and to that point, yes an RF signal - spurious or not - can have an impact on an analogue baseband signal). If the objective of these cables if to protect the cable FROM interferences with the fear that the "bits will be damaged" then this is really funny ... :rolleyes: LMS 7.7.2 - 5 radio, 3 Boom, 4 Duet, 1 Touch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne (sort of) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
