Most Important, Unloved Cable...


Ethernet. I used to say the power cord was the most unloved, but important cable. Now, I update that assessment to the Ethernet cable. Review work forthcoming. 

I can't wait to invite my newer friend who is an engineer who was involved with the construction of Fermilab, the National Accelerator Lab, to hear this! Previously he was an overt mocker; no longer. He decided to try comparing cables and had his mind changed. That's not uncommon, as many of you former skeptics know. :)

I had my biggest doubts about the Ethernet cable. But, I was wrong - SO wrong! I'm so happy I made the decision years ago that I would try things rather than simply flip a coin mentally and decide without experience. It has made all the difference in quality of systems and my enjoyment of them. Reminder; I settled the matter of efficacy of cables years before becoming a reviewer and with my own money, so my enthusiasm for them does not spring from reviewing. Reviewing has allowed me to more fully explore their potential.  

I find fascinating the cognitive dissonance that exists between the skeptical mind in regard to cables and the real world results which can be obtained with them. I'm still shaking my head at this result... profoundly unexpected results way beyond expectation. Anyone who would need an ABX for this should exit the hobby and take up gun shooting, because your hearing would be for crap.  
douglas_schroeder
What SQ you keep referring to...all I hear is noise. In case you don't  know, Noise is a sound with a continuous structure.  


all I hear is noise

I'm shocked you can hear anything based on the fact you can't answer one simple question:

When you pull the cable and the music still plays what happened to the SQ?

At least I know how networked audio works...

I just wonder how music could still play with the network cable disconnected and how, just how, could the sound be the same with no cable. Hmmm. If there was only a way to store some of the music ahead of where it’s currently playing. Heck maybe, as time goes on, we could develop techniques that would store an entire track. Oooh maybe even entire Albums.

Just think of the possibilities.
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