Solid Silver Ethernet Cable?


I am using a Netgear device to accept the wireless signal from my J River Music Server and it is then connected to my PS Audio PerfectWave DAC MkII with the Bridge option with a standard ethernet cable. Knowing the sonic difference between PS Audio's I2S-10 and the solid silver I2S-12 HDMI cables that I tried between transport and DAC I felt that the inexpensive ethernet cable could be a weak link so I began searching for a solid silver ethernet cable and discovered 2; a Denon product at about $500 and a Wegrzyn Cable model at an MSRP of $200 for 2ft.

Because many audiophiles are now streaming music either directly connected from server to DAC via an ethernet cable or wirelessly to a device that is then connected to a DAC via ethernet cable, I feel that it is important to pass along that I purchased the Wegrzyn ethernet cable and it has made a substantial improvement in transparency, detail and that "you are there" quality without any downside to any other part of the music.

Silver seems to be the best material to transport digital signals to my ears and eyes (video). I have spent many thousands of dollars on interconnect, power and speaker cables that have made sonic differences so it makes sense to me that I should try other things that carry signals. This improvement is greater than replacing standard fuses with Hi-Fi Tuning's top of the line models.

Wegrzyn Cables' solid silver HDMI cables are astonishing for 1080P video and are the only cost effective alternative to Audioquest. Good luck and happy listening!!
bazza

Showing 1 response by almarg

From a technical standpoint, given the packetized and buffered nature of ethernet data transmission, and given that the timing of D/A conversion is inherently asynchronous to the timing of the ethernet data, as I see it there are only two means by which an ethernet cable that isn't defective could affect sonics:

1)RFI (radio frequency interference) that is emitted from the cable affecting downstream circuit points.

2)RFI that is picked up by the cable somehow manages to bypass the ethernet interface at the receiving end and affect downstream circuit points.

Were those effects to have any significance in a given setup, cable shielding and cable geometry could conceivably make a difference. But not silver vs. copper.

IMO. Regards,
-- Al