These four cards below,.on the Northern Lights,are the last from me.
Thought it might be interesting to see,.for those of you who have never seen this in reality.
Well, that’s not actually correct. They have a range of cables, some of which are relatively inexpensive and these can be reasonably compared with other “well-hyped” brands at a similar price.
They do also have more expensive - some very expensive - cables, which you’d need to judge for yourself in terms of vfm. All I know is that, if Naim brought out an upgrade to the 552 or 500 that provided a similar level of performance upgrade at anywhere near the price, I’d be all over it.
I have had my EtherRegen switch for 5 days now. It is a clear improvement over the Netgear GS105! The sound is much more focused and layered. The differences are easy to hear.
Yes, i’ve yet to hear their expensive cables and if their entry level ones are anything to go by I do imagine that their pricy cables are something else. That’s what I meant. I have nothing against Chord cables. I have purchased many variants of their Cobra cables over the years and have always thought they were excellent for the price.
I am planning to replace the thin wire that connects my PlusNet ISP router to my broadband wall socket.
If anyone knows whether Belden or any other good cable manufacturer makes a good RJ11 to RJ11 cable for that purpose, please let me know.
thanks
Jim
The ‘better looking’ ADSL2+ “super high speed” cables you can find with Amazon are all OK. They are twisted pair as opposed to the parallel pairs with the ‘thin’ flat looking cables, but the broadband won’t go noticeably any faster or sound better.
(I have two Kenable brand (from amazon) wall socket to UPS surge protect & UPS to BB hub)
Twisted pair to Cat6 spec resulted in a slightly improvement in clarity, noise floor and dynamics in my system. No difference in speeds as Mike-B also reports.
You simply need some Cat5 twisted pair with RJ11 plugs on it. You can find RJ11 Cat 5 and higher patch leads on amazon and eBay. RJ11 uses 4 cables, where as RJ45 uses 8 cables.
It made a difference for me in terms of reducing the noise floor and raising the sync speed of my VDSL slightly.
I changed my wires to twisted pair for a couple of reasons:
I was getting 72/74Mb/s downlink, then BT backed it off & that changed me to 68Mb/s, that rankled a bit although there was nothing that different
Plus I know someone who did see a measurable change, so for around £5 whats to loose.
What I found was the flat pair BT kit cables my downlink speed was a constant 68Mb/s, occasionally 69Mb/s. Changing to twisted pair type cables did nothing that I could detect, still only just the occasional 69Mb/s.
With the person who did get an improvement, he was getting 45/48Mb/s & it went up to a steady 50Mb/s. I finally put it down to his old cable being damaged somehow, it was about 10m long & ‘tacked’ around the skirting board.
Not sure how to measure noise floor, but I don’t hear anything different.
