Thanks, Doug.
Those reading this thread may wish to also read a series of posts beginning around 2-16-2012 in the following thread:
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/shielding-components-from-emi-rfi-help-please
Member Bryoncunningham, who IMO is an especially astute and perceptive listener, and is very thorough in his evaluations, described realizing a substantial sonic improvement by changing from a garden variety unshielded ethernet cable to an **inexpensive** shielded type. I described some technical effects which may have accounted for that.
Also, this thread will be of interest:
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-my-cat5-and-router-my-weak-link
A comment Bryon made on 8-7-2012 in the latter thread:
Regards,
-- Al
Those reading this thread may wish to also read a series of posts beginning around 2-16-2012 in the following thread:
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/shielding-components-from-emi-rfi-help-please
Member Bryoncunningham, who IMO is an especially astute and perceptive listener, and is very thorough in his evaluations, described realizing a substantial sonic improvement by changing from a garden variety unshielded ethernet cable to an **inexpensive** shielded type. I described some technical effects which may have accounted for that.
Also, this thread will be of interest:
https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/are-my-cat5-and-router-my-weak-link
A comment Bryon made on 8-7-2012 in the latter thread:
I can confirm what Al has reported about my experiences when I replaced an unshielded Cat 5 cable with a shielded Cat 6 cable. The result was more resolution. A lot more.As I’ve said in a number of past threads, the existence of differences does not necessarily mean that more expensive = better results.
The $7 shielded Cat 6 cable resulted in a bigger improvement in SQ than several $1,000 power cords and several $2,000 interconnects. Yes, I know that sounds crazy. I can’t explain it.
I’m not saying that other systems will benefit similarly. In fact, I doubt it. But it’s certainly an affordable experiment.
Regards,
-- Al