Audio Grade Ethernet Cable


I've been thinking about getting a DH Labs ethernet cable. My thought is to get my crappy router as close to my Bryston BDP 3 as possible, so that the cable is only 0.5 meters. I do have a TeraDak LPS connected to the router. Is this a waste of time and money? I know the cable is just a couple hundred dollars but I don't want to spend that much just to realize again that my local files will always be preferable.

goofyfoot

@goofyfoot 

From $1,000.00 to $10,000.00 is a huge mark but it may be realistic.

Pardon me as I did exaggerate.  Have no real experience with actual audio mark ups but have read here that 5 times cost from manufacture to sale is not unusual.

@goofyfoot 

I too bought into using Cat 8 cable and found it made no noticeable difference with anything.  I used to watch OCD Mikey and Jay’s Audio Lab and both of the said to make your eithernet cable the last thing you replace.  Mikey never really gave a good reason, but Jay said that the eithernet cable made the least amount of difference in sound quality of anything in his system.

All the best.

True: Also CAT 8 needs a drain (un-shielded at the EQ end) to be of any benefit. 

I used to watch OCD Mikey and Jay’s Audio Lab and both of the said to make your eithernet cable the last thing you replace.  Mikey never really gave a good reason, but Jay said that the eithernet cable made the least amount of difference in sound quality of anything in his system.

I use Neotech CAT6 and USB in my system. Better than Amazon junk and not the high price of so called AP RJ45 and USB cables. 

 

 https://www.hificollective.co.uk/catalog/neotech-neet-1008-2-silver-rj45-cable.html

Just checked the web and this is the 18,456th forum thread about this topic with 352,789 responses not including this one

somewhere around the 15th thread everything that could possibly said about this topic had already been said multiple times

hard to believe you all  are debating it for the 18,457th time.