PCOWandre Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/07/gallery-we-tear-apart-a-340-audiophile-ethernet-cable-and-look-inside/
Kaynin Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Some of the nicest masking tape I've seen. It's not always good to see where your money goes... 1
Equaliser Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Looks like a cheap piece of crap to be honest. You're paying for the brand name not the cost of parts itself. They could've gone with some nicer heatshrink but masking tape? I remember one of the most shilled audiophile power cable company Virtual Dynamics few years back copped quite a fair bit when an online user tore down there $400 power cables to be made of nothing more then $12 worth of parts. Then they closed down in 2008.
PCOWandre Posted July 28, 2015 Author Posted July 28, 2015 There's not much argument for spending up on ethernet cables - anything that performs within spec should be ideal. I'm still surprised there isn't more fibre in the game to remove any possibility of dragging noise in. A lot of hifi kit only has 100Mbit interfaces anyway.
Upfront Posted July 28, 2015 Posted July 28, 2015 Telegartner ends are $60 (expencive here in Aust. $12 most places in europe) a pair at RS and need to be hand assembled. Looks like Cat7 STP. So it is a decent build parts wise..... apart from the obvious masking tape. My sugestion would be one of the below instead. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&id=251957185945&alt=web 1
davewantsmoore Posted July 29, 2015 Posted July 29, 2015 It doesn't look much like the cat6a we used in the datacentre upgrade at work.... the pairs in it were bonded together. We still had trouble getting it to pass spec (the installers couldn't terminate it well enough).
s2020 Posted July 29, 2015 Posted July 29, 2015 If you want high quality ethernet cable just get it from Blue Jeans. They individually test every cable and will even give you the report for your individual cable. Take a look at this article. https://www.bluejeanscable.com/articles/is-your-cat6-a-dog.htm 90% of the cables they tested failed to pass basic spec, no audiofool crap just basic ethernet cables and most of them still failed. Imagine how high the failure rate becomes when you get wankers like Audioquest taking a basic cable then chucking in their "METAL-LAYER NOISE-DISSIPATION SYSTEM" and "DIRECTIONALITY" and other silver plated horse **** to the mix. I notice their cables fail to include a "HIGH FIDELITY SEMEN-RESISTANT LUBRICATION BARRIER" which is obviously a necessary feature since people spending hundreds of dollars on an ethernet cable must be using them as some kind of accessory in self-degrading sex acts, not networking audio devices. Of course even failed cables barely matter for audio, you're using 10Mbps max bandwidth streaming 192/24, 1Mbps streaming standard 44.1/24. CAT6A cable is designed for 10,000Mbps networking so you do the math. Rated for 10,000x more bandwidth than you will ever need, coincidentally exactly the same as Audioquest's profit to cost ratio. 1
Upfront Posted July 29, 2015 Posted July 29, 2015 Minimum test length for testers like fluke DX5000 is 7m from memory. Meaning anything under that cannot be properly tested.
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