ETHERNET CABLES

It never ceases to amaze me how digital experts ignore RMi/EFI and ground level distortion. The issue isn’t at all about lost bits but rather about these distortions affecting timing and the subsequent D/A conversion. That’s why cable shielding and the quality of the conductors (dependent on purity of the metal) have such a big influence, The more distortion is travelling along the cables the harder the subsequent error correction circuits have to work, which in turn results in additional timing errors, not lost bits! And accurate timing is crucial for transmitting the spatial and attack and decay information in the analogue domain.

@Jerrybj

agreed, ideally with an optimum impedance match.

@nonoise 

Thanks for continuing the valiant fight, I am though afraid that adherents of digital 1/0 religion will be lost on analogue arguments. In particular your argument on time allignment as well as noise affecting DA conversion emanating from stray ground, RMI/EFI or simply from processors working hard at error correction should give these 2 bit warriors something to think about.

BTW seems we are brothers in arm in choosing our moniker.

@fredrik222,

I can’t but find your argument pompously principled: Has the thought occured to you that heavy error correction in itself causes noise from the processor as well as time allignment issues?. You seem to have no knowledge of D/A conversion issues in audio applications.

Yawn, I am signing off this BS