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Posted on January 10, 2021 at 14:36:25
Ishmael
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 I just bought a Bluesound Node2i. It came with CAT5e. Listening to it with this cable in place made me think that I had made a mistake. I bought a not-very-expensive CAT8 cable. Pretty much every aspect of sound reproduction got better, a lot better. With the CAT8 in place, I got sound that was better than my last setup which included Ultrarendu, Uptone LPS 1.2, and Inakustic USB ($350 just for the cable). And this was using the included coax, which I will be upgrading with a Pangea.

 

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What DAC do you use? Internal or external? Nt, posted on January 10, 2021 at 21:14:47
raingerz
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 Nt

 

RE: Surprise!, posted on January 12, 2021 at 07:31:32
E-Stat
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 It came with CAT5e...With the CAT8 in place, I got sound that was better

The difference is largely in shielding. Seems you have some RFI noise in your network.

I power use a linear power supply for cable modem/router and use a Tripp Lite ethernet isolator just before the ultraRendu.

 

Weird, posted on January 20, 2021 at 14:26:39
Dawnrazor
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 I read on here that its impossible for network cables to make ANY difference in the sound...

Cut to razor sounding violins

 

Using very cheap CAT8 cable, posted on January 26, 2021 at 19:18:58
jeromelang
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Big freaking improvement!

Not only are music streamed by Tidal improved, music read from that usb stick plugged into the back of the streamer as well. Can't understand why.

 

RE: Using very cheap CAT8 cable, posted on January 29, 2021 at 09:21:23
SteveJewels
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 Even a cheap Cat 8 cable had far better signal integrity than say a Cat 5. 25 or 40 GBps\2 GHz vs 100 Mbps\100 MHz. Impedance control and manufacturing methods have to be a lot better.

I would be interested in a comparison between a 'high end' Cat 5 cable and a cheap but serviceable Cat 8 cable.

 

RE: What DAC do you use? Internal or external? Nt, posted on February 10, 2021 at 09:13:14
Ishmael
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 USB DAC in Oppo 105D.

 

RE: Surprise!, posted on February 22, 2021 at 01:58:10
Daveslater
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 Is the rest of your network Cat 5? Is it just the cable to the Bluesound unit you have changed to Cat 8?

 

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