Sound Quality Ethernet vs AES/TOSLINK

[wklie (Peter Lie)]

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Wireworld Starlight Cat8 Connector problem

Noise via Ethernet is a real thing, but the funny thing is that most audiophile cables are making the problem worse. The sad thing is that consumers are buying these things. Twisted-pair Ethernet is a differential (balanced) connection so typical EMI/RFI issues are addressed through common mode rejection. That isn’t to say that Ethernet is immune to this type of noise, but in a domestic application you have to be really haphazard in cable routing to get real issues here. Twisted-pair Ethernet…