It is not to eliminate the uncertainty, it is to encourage and profit by it. Shorter word: Scam.
Another view is of those that are crazy but sincere. Another word: arrogance.
It is hard to be polite on this one. What the hell makes some company think that it can (if it sincerely does think so) do better than a very highly developed technological industry?
This is not some hobby audio cable we are talking about. It is not something that is made for hifi systems which belong to the minority and [according to some, without whom there would not be a market] can be enhanced for the minority of the minority who pay a high price for that. It is network cable.
You have given no answer to any of the technical posts, and you have, apparently, completely ignored my last explanation of why
network cables do not because they cannot.
OK, so in line with my thinking that, if the networking cannot make a difference, but there is one,
what would make that difference? My first suspect would be the most important interconnect of all: the mind. But
could it be, as others have posted on the net, to do with
electrical noise?
Hmmm... What electrical noise is one network cable going to introduce to one machine when both are in the same noise electrical environment and both are connected to the same mains supply? And how is this going to affect our dearly-beloved
data? Well, at least these are
valid questions although I believe that they are covered already in the Ethernet device/cable design. Perhaps someone like Mowgli80 can confirm this please. If this is the case, the answer, cleverly mentioned by someone on another forum, is either to use isolation devices, or even better ---
use fibre
But, honestly, in industrial/commercial applications where the data matters a whole heap more than audio, and where the consequences of unreliability are much greater than one of us music lovers getting a headache, what will you see? Miles of Cat
n ethernet cabling.
Do you? Because so far, that has happened, and you have ignored or sidestepped it all. It has all been explained. I have put a lot of effort into my explanations, and all to no avail.
If you want to do something extraordinary, over the top and experimental, and say, "look, there is no chance of anything but data passing from one machine to another, or being picked up on the way," then, as mentioned, use fibre. At least there is some technical validity in that: there is none in cosmetically altered cat
n cables.
Those who want to run and buy this stuff, and tell each other, on and offline, how it changes the sound, will continue to buy them. They will continue not to make any actual investigation into the technology that they are using, because that would stop them doing so. The companies will continue to make money.
All I hope is that various posts here might just loose those companies a sale or two. I have no hopes at all that those product lines will die off: the uncertainty/scam/arrogance syndrome will rule.
Even in those countries that have effective trading standards legislation and enforcement nobody seems to care about these minority bloodsuckers.
To repeat my Engineering friend's quote: thank god the pro audio world is not like this. And, the next time I have to buy any cables, I will buy the stuff that the pro-audio people use. It will be a vote for sanity, and a financial mark of support, on principle, for the companies that want no part in the madness. Now I expect my post will be deleted. Anyway, at this point I'd better give up. Anyway, I like this forum and the people I meet through it: I don't want to get banned
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