I have done extensive research on this and developed a filter to greatly reduce the problem, which is our old friend ‘RFI’.
Ethernet cables are great aerials to channel RFI straight into the back end of your streamer. An expensive screened cable can reduce some RFI and will definitely improve sound quality a bit compared with a standard patch lead. The best solution though, and is a lovely improvement to the sound, is a cable with inbuilt Common Mode RFI suppression in both the transmit and receive twisted pairs. These are uncommon and very expensive, that’s why I developed a filter that does this. It’s the removal of RFI that improves the sound, not ‘better data’ or anything like that.
My filter is at http://www.transformaudio.uk/eno.htm
Ethernet cables are great aerials to channel RFI straight into the back end of your streamer. An expensive screened cable can reduce some RFI and will definitely improve sound quality a bit compared with a standard patch lead. The best solution though, and is a lovely improvement to the sound, is a cable with inbuilt Common Mode RFI suppression in both the transmit and receive twisted pairs. These are uncommon and very expensive, that’s why I developed a filter that does this. It’s the removal of RFI that improves the sound, not ‘better data’ or anything like that.
My filter is at http://www.transformaudio.uk/eno.htm