It’s too bad you couldn’t include a BJC or similar in your testing.
HH will do and compare with vodka. Nick Lees will compare also them to his Chord Music. If one of them finds BJC better, i will test too.
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Can someone explain to me why an ethernet cable would effect the quality of the sound? As far as I’m aware music doesn’t travel down it…
I bought a Cat7 cable for my NDX2 off amazon for about a tenner. Ive got a super lumina interconnect, can’t see a good reason to purchase an expensive ‘audiophile’ ethernet cable… Am i being a total idiot?
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all you can read are contradictory points of view…
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I’m not going to bother now. I’m sticking with the Vodka or Vodkas as it were. I’m now more convinced than ever I have it right the first time round, ok second time round, after the Cinnamons that is. Back to the Music Room methinks…
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Yup. Thanks TiberioMagadino. Life’s too short, enjoy what you have, there’s no right or wrongs here. If I was unhappy with the outcome then maybe it would’ve been a different story but i’m not so i’m going to stop while the going is good. Everyone is on their own journey here and it’s all about the music at the end the day. One needs to find what works for them. My advice is to home trial before you buy, it’s the only way for sure to find out what is you’re after. Enjoy!
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@Peter1480,…Interestingly,.have you the opportunity to send a picture of how it is stuck on the wall,so it would be great.
Transferred resonances from the wall,.as well as the wall-brackets vary of course,whether it is wood or concrete walls.
And Cisco as with all electronics,.are sensitive to internal vibrations and microphony.
Me and my Cableoholic-friend talked about that we should test your suggestion,.so an image would be interesting so we can get some ideas.
This is Cableoholic’s hifi-rack,.it is the Swedish Entreq’s best hifi-rack,and is at the same price level as Naim Fraim.
Here we just “playing” with some different powercables to a Cisco.
Not any serious test,.so it looks a little bit cluttered out in the hifi-rack.
But getting this Cisco up on the wall would be brilliant,.if also the soundquality gets better.
/Peder🙂
Dude - read post 724 in tHis thread by .xanthe.
That explains exactly why d8fferent Ethernet cables produce different effects on the sound quality of your hifi.
Well if it causes ‘electrical noise’ surely wifi would be the better option? Seems like looking for something to me though, I’m very obsessive about getting the best sound - too much so in fact, but to me this seems a bridge too far… just my opinion though. I think these companies do prey on audiophiles like ourselves 
maybe there’s some truth in the post, but I’ve gotta say I’m gonna sit this upgrade bug out 
Peder, here is a picture, difficult to get at!
Our walls are plastered brick (floors are soild stone and everthing sits on spikes), the brackets hold the switch about 1cm off the wall (there is one top and bottom), it has the cables comming from one side so there is a good flow of air from bottom to top. My Rega is on a wall shelf above there is no feelable vibration on either even at neighbour anoying volume.
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That’s a big noise conductor right there!
hahaha
how can a wall transfer resonnances, vibrations? it’s the contrary, the why there are wall mounting shelves for turntables.
Yes maybe, in defence these plugs are so well made & robust its hard not to like them, but metal casings in a domestic environment?? I’m not so sure about that, potential to add more than it prevents.
The other thing with them is they are rated Cat-6A, OK OK I know anything over Cat-5 (100MHz) on audio is not required & is just headroom, but the patch cables they get fitted on are most always rated Cat-7 … ??? .
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But do you have a dac plugged in with an Ethernet cable?
Turning on WiFi turns on a radio transmitter inside the case of the streamer (= more noise)!
As I pointed out the network “streaming” cable that worked best in my system cost all of £4.50.
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Anything other than this must be broken…
a stands for Augmented
Cat 6 and Cat 6a are both data cable specification standards. Cat 6a is higher bandwidth supporting 10Gbps at 100 metres and may be physically larger making it quite stiff and as such it is usually better suited for infrastructure wiring as opposed to patch leads.
Cat 6 supports 10Gbps to 55 metres.
Cat 5e supports 1Gbps to 100 metres.