ETHERNET CABLES

Well put, thanks!

@samgar2 👍

@nonoise the irony with your name…. Lol.

but to your comment, there are literally people in this post saying that they went from muddled mess with 44/16 streaming and voila new cable and its pristine 44/16 streaming.

and there is an extremely low chance that you are introducing any noise in your house, and again, this noise doesn’t leak anywhere into any component with modern equipment. Ethernet today is way too robust.

No one is calling anyone crazy, however, it helps to learn a bit how your brain works when you are talking about something that is physically impossible to make any difference. Your brain is influenced in many ways, and if you are not careful, it is easy to “hear” a difference with any change, confirmation bias is a huge issue for the untrained. 

@fredrik222 ,

You are one naive individual. Noise gets in even with "modern" equipment. You need to take your act on the road in the Catskills with an audience as out of touch as yourself.

And, to not see what 12many implied (or even worse, for you to intentionally give cover for) is pathetic.

All the best,
Nonoise

Cat6 should do the job and I will also share something that improved the SQ in my system.

I had 2 Ethernet switches between my router and streamer and was running low $ Best Buy cables.  I got an entry level Ethernet cable from Audioquest and eliminated both switches by placing a home run from the router directly to my streamer.  I was careful to buy exactly the cable length I needed so there was no excess.  I'm guessing that the improvement came from eliminating noise from the switches and perhaps, to a lesser degree, better shielding from the higher cost cable.  The improvement in SQ that I most noticed was better detail in the soundstage.

Good Luck!