Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference?

@kosst_amojan gravity has pretty big impact is audio world, and in the way we all understand it well - it forces everything (including cables) to go down and end up on the floor close to each other. Believe me - I know, I have jumped out of airplanes and there was no cases of not landing...

And there, on the floor, when cables are close to each other and parallel to each other, EM kicks in.

That is where I can agree that high quality shielding and proper twisting of the pairs can make a difference. But difference in noises reduction.

Hope everyone can agree with my gravity understanding :-)

kosst_amojan

Bill Nye ... is hardly any authority on science by training or trade seeing as he's a mechanical engineer.

Mechanical engineering is very much a science, kosst. That makes him more of a scientist than you.

I have to concur with the naysayers but also want to add another angle to consider.  No device takes the bits off the network and immediately converts the information into sound.  There are buffers in the receiver that are likely several MB in size.  This is why something keeps playing for a few seconds even if you cut the network connection.

So ... the bits come over the wire and get stored in the buffer and your equipment, DAC or whatever, drains that buffer and turns it into sound.  So I don't see how the quality of network cable affects the sound since all its doing is filling a buffer.