Supra are so so cables. Maybe consider a Furutech CAT 8 NCF or a WireWorld 8 CAT 8 Starlight. Both very reasonably priced, the Furutech being a tad warmer.
WireWorld 8 CAT 8 Platinum is excellent but very detailed and probably too bright for you.
Supra Cat 8 Ethernet cable
HI All
I recently purchased a Supra Cat 8 ethernet cable to replace the stock cable to my bluesound node 2i after hearing rave reviews of the Supras. However, the Supra sounded rather bright and clinical in my system. Plus side it has a lot of details, sounds very clear and bass prodution was pretty good but just sounded very forward and bright over my stock ethernet cable. Am using Klipsch 6000 f speakers, an XTZ power amp and a Freya + preamp.
I have not run in the Supra fully yet, about 7 hours. Will it get better over time? Has anyone who has used Supra to your node 2i felt the same. Or do you have a different opinion? Appreciate your views.
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Some thoughts and questions: By what mechanism -- other than noise transfer -- could an Ethernet cable carrying packets make the eventual analog sound be warmer or brighter? Is this measurable? Detectable in a blind test? Persistent over time? Would "a tad warmer" suit every recording? If not, wouldn’t it be more efficient to just buy a good equalizer that could be adjusted per recording? How musically significant are differences among Ethernet cables, compared to other things one might do to improve sound with $275 or $600, like buy a bass trap or two, or acquire some very good Scotch, or spend a day finding the best position for one's speakers and the listening chair and then take the SO out for dinner? Why should defeating the galvanic isolation of Cat 7 Ethernet be a good thing?
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@mike_in_nc as far as ethernet cables go I agree. Just get AQ Forest and call it a day. |
@mike_in_nc I find it difficult to assign a reason for sound signature with ethernet cables as well. In any case, can't say I've heard one. I can understand the cat 8 being inferior as it transfer noise via ground plane. On the other hand, cable itself more impervious to rfi, still can get in connectors.
In my ethernet cable experiments only heard differences in noise floor, I agree Supra only so, so. Settled on Audioquest Vodka, haven't bothered since.
By the way, many of us concerned with galvanic isolation of ethernet, a la fiber conversion or filters of various types. |
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