Ethernet cables - YOUR LISTENING Shooutout Summary

[Gerben]

Fully agree.

[NoNaim]

Resistance is futile…The Borg.

[glevethan]

@anon4489532

There are too many who deploy the ‘I’m an engineer and therefore I know best’ argument and it’s wholly unhelpful.

Right
My name is Roy George
Naim amplifiers require speaker cable with a certain inductance for our amplifier to work properly.
Oh , by the way, I’m an engineer

Really?

[anon4489532]

Perhaps I should have included the words ‘Forum members’.

[Gerben]

Didn’t mention the title ‘engineer’ but anyway I reconize your vieuw on this.

[Gerben]

Maybe Roy used to engineer toasters, no NAPs. Toaster engineers sell a lot of fried air.

[frenchrooster]

60 posts on shielding, floating, millimeter, screen connection…
In a thread called : YOUR LISTENING shoot out summary
As often, there is more members interested by measurements, numbers, …than listening impressions.

[ChrisSU]

I guess there are only so many hundred posts you can read, all basically saying ‘cable X is better than cable Y’ before it gets a bit boring (subjectively, of course!) so a bit of thread drift is inevitable. But yes, a different thread would be appropriate.

[NigelB]

Multimeters are even more boring!

[ChrisSU]

Well yes, but you’d have to get something really imaginitive printed on your Ethernet cable for it to be more interesting than a multimeter display. I feel you are the man to take up this challenge.

[NigelB]

I have already put forward an advisory message in the form of a limerick to put on the side of a CatSnake.

See post 517.

You can’t say I haven’t tried.

[charlesphoto]

@glevethan

I have now just replaced my Bluejeans 6A with 6. By the way my use of 6A was based upon recommendations on the Linn forum."

Best
Gregg

You are aware that BJC Cat 6a is a floating shield as well, and most here, myself included, found 6a to better than 6.

[ChrisSU]

Shakerpeare, eat your heart out!

[glevethan]

@charlesphoto

You are aware that BJC Cat 6a is a floating shield as well, and most here, myself included, found 6a to better than 6.

Thank you. I am aware of that.
The fact remains that I have recently changed my digital source from a Linn KDS to a dCS Rossini.

The network engineer for dCS has specifically stated that UNSHIELDED Ethernet cable should be used for maximum performance ie CAT 6.

I would like to follow the manufacturers recommendations. As I posted above it would be like Roy George telling me to use NAC A5 due to its inductive properties and then me completely ignoring him and using a cable with different properties.

What do engineers know

[Innocent_Bystander]

@frenchrooster

there is more members interested by measurements, numbers, …than

And some diversions not directly to do with the cables at all… but the recent exchange about measurements was actually started by people wanting to know if they’d bought what they thought they had, which is perfectly understandable whethe or not they think it sounds good!

[leatherneck]

@frenchrooster

It’s not a data problem, but noise.

And Timing!

[frenchrooster]

It doesn’t need to create 60 posts on that.

[Dozey]

I agree. My post was the only one required.

[charlesphoto]

Ah. Well, let us know what you think since you’ll have both (I went from 6 to 6a).

I use 8m of Chord Rumor 2 on my BD 160 and before that 110. Sounds great, as good if not better than the 3.5m of NACA5 I had (now in office on 110). What do engineers know?

[Mike-B]

60 post on various technical clarifications, 500 posts on how it all sounds … the first has resolved the questions, the second remains … ongoing