RE: ethernet cable and sound

Posted by soundchekk (A) on April 14, 2012 at 04:50:02

In Reply to: ethernet cable and sound posted by eduardoo on April 12, 2012 at 23:24:32:

As ususal. It's all about noise/EMI/RFI.

Cables act like antennas.

Shielded cables build nasty groundloops into the devices causing interferences/intermodulations and noise inside your audio equipment.

Every measure that'll reduce or change the pollution spectrum will therefore show an impact.

The USB connection comes with similar problems. It's not even isolated to reduce some common mode noise.

The ethernet of course gathers the mess of all clients involved.

One of the main issues is the basically not existing quality grounding
in normal houses/apartments.

Since all cables are built differently (filter and antenna characteristcs differ), you'll experience more or less respectively different impact.

From the feedback I gathered over time, I have to say that it doesn't have to be "audiophile" grade/priced cables to go after. There seem to be quite good cables out there at ridiculous low price, performing better
then those audiophile cables.

If audio-interfaces would have a better isolation against those typical distortions, we wouldn't have that discussion.

Obviously vendors/manufacturer need to accept first that those distortions will have an impact. That's IMO one of the main problem.

You'll see the very same and stupid argumentation on the ethernet issue
as we've seen it in the early days of async USB audio.
"It's all digital, it's all async --- there can't be any impact"

Enjoy.

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Topic - ethernet cable and sound - eduardoo 23:24:32 04/12/12 (27)

RE: ethernet cable and sound - eduardoo 00:43:20 04/16/12 (3)

RE: ethernet cable and sound - fmak 04:37:04 04/16/12 (2)

RE: ethernet cable and sound - eduardoo 19:43:41 04/16/12 (1)

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RE: ethernet cable and sound - cfraser 10:40:53 04/14/12 (4)

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RE: ethernet cable and sound - soundchekk 04:50:02 04/14/12 (4)

As usual - fmak 09:18:28 04/14/12 (0)

RE: ethernet cable and sound - Roseval 05:37:20 04/14/12 (2)

RE: ethernet cable and sound - Ryelands 06:13:09 04/14/12 (1)

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RE: ethernet cable and sound-One - fmak 00:29:06 04/14/12 (8)

RE: ethernet cable and sound-One - Tony Lauck 07:01:40 04/14/12 (7)

Is the audio data going through the Linksys? - fmak 09:06:22 04/14/12 (6)

RE: Is the audio data going through the Linksys? - Tony Lauck 11:42:59 04/14/12 (5)

RE: Is the audio data going through the Linksys? - fmak 11:44:40 04/14/12 (4)

RE: Is the audio data going through the Linksys? - Tony Lauck 12:10:22 04/14/12 (3)

RE: Is the audio data going through the Linksys? - fmak 22:48:39 04/14/12 (2)

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RE: ethernet cable and sound - soundchekk 04:50:02 04/14/12 (4)

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RE: ethernet cable and sound - Roseval 05:37:20 04/14/12 (2)

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