The Shunyata Research OMEGA-X-Ethernet Cable

No doubt we are passionate group! 

Shunyata Research has great research and wonderful products. 

It’s hard to know where to go here given the context of all the points of view. 

I will simply say that the shorter your cables, any kind of cables, the better. Noise comes from many sources, so shielding works, but does not eliminate the noise that already existed on the signal. Reclocking helps with jitter, but does not eliminate it, it has its limits. Digital signals are really analog square waves that need to be interpreted and error corrected. Noise in the ground will affect the interpretation of 1s and 0s. 

Get rid of as much noise as you can at all levels. No single solution is the absolute best or worst. They all have their engineering tradeoffs. 

Here is a blog that goes into all these subjects and also has bibliographies of the sources in case you want to take a deeper dive! 

Cheers! And have fun! 

The Truth about how Data Networks affect Audio Streaming

there is something about cables, even ethernet, that adds to the sound. I connected fiber direct to my source to remove all noise and it did, but the sound was completely flat! so now I do a little cascade and still use fiber but the cable that goes into my source is no longer is fiber. I get the fullness back this way. Since then, I have stopped questioning every little detail and claim made by these manufacturers 

yes I am still skeptical but I’m at least willing to take a listen

frank009

Daisy, daisy, give me your answer do.................

Lol @rja 

@ejh369 The best length of the cable being shorter is one of the many myths of Cables.

that idea is based on the supposition that there’s some sort of pure source

and anything else is getting in the way, so we want to minimize the interference

that’s not actually how it works

that kind of thinking is actually very Christian as if there was ever some perfect purity some garden of Edan some moment before sin if you will 

with certain cables, you can think of them as a color which contributes positively or negatively to the palate of your chain

there's no perfectionism in this, there's no purity

with other Cables, for example some Shunyata research power cords like THETA NR and GAMMA NR you can think of them as a noise reduction device

this noise does impede with the notion of Pure source

and the longer they are the more low end comes in. This could be a good thing or a bad thing see above.