Ethernet cables

All ethernet cables, as long as they are within the correct specs will work with no difference.

Even with lots of noise present, error correction protocols will take care of the situation (read  convolutional codes, Viterbi decoding).

As for jitter etc, those do not matter since Ethernet is an ASYNCHRONOUS bit stream.  The router/bridge assembles the packets properly before forwarding it.

Remember this stuff works at up 10s of gigabits correctly.  At audio frequencies, the medium utilization will be no more than 3-5%.

I also use Amazon CAT 8 in front of and after my optical set up.  The optical made a significant improvement.  I have tried a couple AQ cables (with the optical) and they made no improvement so they were returned and I use the amazon cables. Money spent on an AQ USB cable instead.  Might be different if I didn’t have optical?

(please those who think it’s just 1s and 0s please stay out of this)

Heaven forbid anyone try to interject some science into a thread. 

Don’t you know that depends on cables , some 0s are rounder then others ?

Lots of people here are not for science, but for validation of their feelings...

@mrskeptic ​​​​@kgbspy 

Careful, since you also do not seem to believe in magic, you may be excommunicated from the thread too :-)