re. Uptone ether regen installation

I am running my ether Regen with the USB in and the fiber out to my Lumin. Since I am only using a very short ethernet cable I was using a cat 5 based on the instructions you refer to. But I just tried a cat 8 cable, and I don't think it made a difference.

However, my configuration is different than yours.

ozzy

Physical isolation or electrical isolation?

Or are you guessing?

Well, I just re-tested the cat 8 cable against the cat 5 that I was using to my EtherRegen, and the cat 5 is better! The cat 8 has a little more upper mid presence that sounds a little too much perhaps to the point of almost distortion? Not really, but the cat 5 sounds more natural. Strange things.

It must be due to the extra metal that is in the cat 8 connector as Uptone suggests.

ozzy

I'm using uptone's JS-2 ps for both ether regen and my server, would it make a difference to isolate them electrically? And using a cat 8 to feed it, so that's no good either.