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Using CAT5 as analogue cable is fine, it's a cheap, high-quality, low impedance cable. But this article is talking about TCP transmission, sadly enough :(
by sz4kerto 13y ago
Using CAT5 as analogue cable is fine, it's a cheap, high-quality, low impedance cable. But this article is talking about TCP transmission, sadly enough :(
- oakwhiz 13y agoWell, let's see: The increase in latency and decrease in throughput of a TCP connection from a single (improbable) occurance of a corrupted packet on a modern LAN is negligible. Even if these audiophiles are streaming raw 192 kHz 32-bit 5.1 surround audio, that only seems to be about 37 Mbps. Any network audio streaming program worth its salt will buffer some number of samples to accommodate minor interruptions. So "magic" aside, you're probably not going to be getting packet loss with a "regular" cable. If a cable is good enough for Gigabit Ethernet, it's definitely good enough for your ears...
- radiowave 13y agoRight, though for a lot of audio guys it's a bit unnerving to be working with unshielded cable.
- dfox 13y agoIt's worth to note that with balanced signals, many problems (hum, some kinds of induced EMI...) that tend to be attributed by audio guys to poor shielding would not exist if there were no shielding at all.