@Dunc
I have no idea which Drago he meant 
I found the omega to have a much more refined bass, but mids and hf had more depth and punch with sigma.
Compared to sigma the omega is a bit laid back - in a very good way, but so it is.
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Very interesting @Dunc are you going to expand your evaluation to include say the Chord Music streaming cable, the JCAT, Network Acoustics offerings?
Or are you now sold and the Audioquest Diamond is history?
Never believed that a Ethernet cable could influence the sound, but for the last 6 years or so, my last connection, is the Chord Tuned Array Streaming, the one that wasnāt allowed to be called an āEthernet cableā and at the time was Ā£1,600 for its length, god knows what that would be in todayās money (a good 2nd hand purchase 
).
Never mind a Ethernet switch or an Ethernet switch with an external OXCO clock, as I find myself with today!!
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No one blinks at paying a few thousand for an interconnect or speaker cable but mention these prices for ethernet cables and you can hear blood vessels bursting!
Trouble is, these top end cables are more like a box upgrades than simple tweaks. Iām a few months in with my Sigma and I am still marvelling at how good a piano sounds and the simple emotion a piano chord can create when struck and you hear the correct tone with the right amount of decay. Just awesome.
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Just come out from listening tonight. Itās been very interesting, and i have tried a few combos.
I am getting tovlike the omega more,but as soon as the hemingway goes in i feel itās nicer.
But the omega certainly has a growing appeal to it, but maybe because itās slightly laid back so very easy to listen too,especially for a long time.
The Audioquest on the melco is slightly better than the standard phoenixnet cable,but its not a huge difference, and that doesnāt change with whatever cable i use on the last leg. But itās certainly better.
I still feel the hemingway is the best cable in my system for me, but will see if i still feel the same by Monday.
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I wonder if this cable with this construction, which is obviously working well in this streaming application, could be classed as an Ethernet cable?
It looks like that Korean page got translated a bit off. Itās hard for me to understand what they write.
Itās probably because itās not in the ancient language of the Neotechās.
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I think itās a very fine cable. More articulate and more nuanced texture than the Powerline. I preferred the copper to the Silver (thinner and lost some texture). I have it on everything now, mostly through the powerblocks (which I preferred to the Powerigels and other usual suspects).
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Does anyone have any idea how the Shunyata Delta compares sound-wise?
As far as I can gather it is exactly the same cable but without the any of the āpodsā. There is 1 x C-mode pod on the Alpha, 2 on Sigma, and 2 dual-purpose C-mode and TAP filter pods on the Omega.
Iām not a fan of filtersā¦
As far as Ethernet cables go Iām currently agnostic, but I have a question.
My set up is similar to others here, but the cables are relatively basic. I have a Core connected to my BT router with the basic Chord cable; an old inherited Ethernet cable (possibly supplied by BT before 2016) connecting to a Cisco switch; then a Cablemonkey Ethernet cable to an EE8 followed by a Chord Epic cable to the ND555. I can bypass all that by plugging a USB memory stick into the front of the ND555. This is not a long term alternative to using the Core, nor for streaming, but would a comparison with the direct USB link show whether my streaming set up is optimised, or is the USB route itself compromised?
Good news. Not a fan of the powerline too, too lean.
Thanks Mickael.
Why donāt you connect the Core directly to the EE8?
I decided after another listen today that i would install the cables better rather than the thrown in as it was.
I have gone for what i think will be my end result but thatās not 100% set in stone.
So i have put my audioquest diamond on the melco, and have the hemingway to my dac.
Plus i wanted to get it looking better for when Dan turns up Saturday.
I did try the cable that came with the PhoenixNet on the last leg, it was ok, but didnāt have quite the same sparkle.
Had to stop as we have thunder and lightning here right now, so complete system is un plugged obviously.
I will try at some point but the Core is on the other side of the room and there isnāt really any space near the hifi itself. Do you think it would make a difference? There is such a variety of described experience on the forum with regard to switches, routers, cable etc.
I did compare a memory stick as a source with the Core (same rips) and I couldnāt hear a difference.
In theory it should be better, as it isolates the hifi setup from the rest of the network. Whether it makes a SQ difference is something else of course.
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If there is any chance, you have to try the sigma. Less mid focused than omega and more lively in my system.
But!
If the Hemingway is the one - it is the one. Keep it!
Iāll get Oephi Immanence ethernet next week. And some other Oephi cables to evaluate what a āfull Oephi loomā sounds like.
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Is the Swedish distributor a friend of yours?
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I donāt think he has the sigma for demo.
I certainly havenāt given up on the omega, i just feel that the hemingway is better for me right now.
So i am going to run the hemingway for 5 dayās then put the omega in and see if i miss the hemingway or actually prefer the omega.
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