Audiophile Ethernet card! Finally!

[magetoo]

[I may be offline for a while whilst I cryogenically freeze my ethernet cables]

Don't let them go below absolute zero or you'll mess up the tachyon ordering of the bits and end up listening to the music in the wrong order.

Good, common-sense advice, as one would expect from this forum, but it seems you are too late.  There are already some subtle effects from having the tachyons disturbed - the effects must have rippled backwards in time to at least the time of forum registration and flipped the username round.

[Cyberdragon]

I want to build something with a big HV supply like a MOT and rectifiers, then fill it full of random capacitors and lithium ion batteries. No, not for power, it would be mains powered. Then sell it for alot of money to audiophools...maybe even free energy nuts...
 
"BUT WAIT...THAT WOULD BE A-" SSSSHHHH! It's an "Audiophile Explodingus Grade Magic Smoke Machine", just place it in the middle of all your equipment and plug it in. The Magic Smoke (tm) (just ignore the fireballs and shrapnal) will then "cleanse" your equipment. No garuntees of course...

[WastelandTek]

oh 

my

god

[ataradov]

Reading their forum is such a joy. They all are a nice bunch of delusional morons.

[Cyberdragon]

Reading their forum is such a joy. They all are a nice bunch of delusional morons.

Yep, I'm a tube head and I'm not this stupid: http://jplay.eu/forum/index.php?/topic/646-isolation/

Multiple 1D10T errors detected!

[TerraHertz]

I wonder if it might be possible to market Audiophool kool aid? "The drink to enhance your listening experience. Scientifically proven to align the magnetic spin dipoles of the inner ear neurones, resulting in a more phase coherent auditory nerve response and totally flat gain spectrum."

Actually just contains cyanide.
Making up some glowing user reviews would be standard fare.

Trademark: Crystal clEar (tm) the beverage of Ultimate Quiet.

[helius]

Many beverages contain cyanogenic glycosides, which are not harmful at all in normal doses. Examples are amacha and orgeat.

[3db]

Ethernet allows almost endless extra audio tweak possibilities: dynamic vs. static IP, does 10.10.x.x sound better than 192.168.x.x, sound differences between router ports and what is the correct cable direction (twisted pair direction). And of course all the usual audio device tweaks also effect ethernet devices. 

Class A subnets will sound better of course!

 

[CJay]

Ethernet allows almost endless extra audio tweak possibilities: dynamic vs. static IP, does 10.10.x.x sound better than 192.168.x.x, sound differences between router ports and what is the correct cable direction (twisted pair direction). And of course all the usual audio device tweaks also effect ethernet devices. 

Class A subnets will sound better of course!

None of that new fangled harsh sounding IPV6 stuff

[Ochsenfrosch]

If you're spending so much money on your equipement you better not forget to buy an anti-virus protected HDMI cable!
Remember: Dont buy virus protection, buy anti-virus protection!

[blacksheeplogic]

oh 

my

god

Gold platted connectors perhaps?

[madires]

Class A subnets will sound better of course!

None of that new fangled harsh sounding IPV6 stuff

You got no idea! With the much larger address space you can finetune the audio stream to match your environment much better. If you've experienced harsh sound with with IPv6, it's because of a completely detuned IP address not in balance with your sound environment. I'm working on an IPv6 audio tuner right now. It's similar to a guitar tuner and allows you to finetune the IPv6 address fast and easy.

[GreyWoolfe]

 

[Red Squirrel]

I hope that takes Gbics so I can use audio grade multimode shielded fibre optic cable.   

If you patch it through an audio encabulator it will increase the performance even more but you want to make sure the far end is using a decabulator in order to componsate for the flex density of the wave matrix.  Make sure you get an encabulator by GE directly as there are lot of fakes out there.

[Red Squirrel]

You can have the most expensive clock you want, but if it's not kept synced with a n+1 redundant Symmetricom GPS receiver unit, it's kind of useless.    You also want to ensure you use 0 ohm impedance coax cooled at -512C. The good stuff will use braided liquid tubes.

[boffin]

When hooking this up, you really should pick a subnet which is a prime number; as a method of reducing harmonics

 

[blacksheeplogic]

I hope that takes Gbics so I can use audio grade multimode shielded fibre optic cable.   

In another of the forum threads fiber was dismissed due to the jitter associated with fiber optics so it looks like copper with gold platted connectors is as good as it gets.

[Halcyon]

I hope that takes Gbics so I can use audio grade multimode shielded fibre optic cable.   

In another of the forum threads fiber was dismissed due to the jitter associated with fiber optics so it looks like copper with gold platted connectors is as good as it gets.

This must be where our current Prime Minister got his "expert" advice from! According to him, Australia doesn't need to invest in fibre optics to future-proof our telecommunications infrastructure, the green, crusty, 50 year old copper will do just fine and 12Mbps downstream is enough for everyone!

[NivagSwerdna]

I hope that takes Gbics so I can use audio grade multimode shielded fibre optic cable.   

In another of the forum threads fiber was dismissed due to the jitter associated with fiber optics so it looks like copper with gold platted connectors is as good as it gets.

Cryogenic freezing very important to align crystal structure works well for metals, less so for fibre. 

[edy]

Can someone explain to me how in a digital system, the "noise" is at all relevant to the sound quality? Wouldn't the only effect be relevant at the final DAC stage and downstream amplifiers? Everything else prior to the DAC along the digital transport pathway (USB, ethernet, etc...) should not be susceptible to noise, that's the whole point of digital, no?

[Simon]

The best thing you can do is install a PCI audio card as it puts the analogue stuff further away from the unshielded digital stuff on the motherboard causing lots of noise. But I just used an old sound-blaster card that I moved from PC to PC ignoring the onboard sound-card with analogue amplifiers sitting in the middle of digital busses. Have they bothered to come up with an overpriced shielded soundcard ?

[pknoe3lh]

Don't forget the most important factor!!!! To have a "pure" connection to the power grid:

 https://youtu.be/XJJy6VJvSCk?t=27s

 

[jeroen79]

Oh my! Perhaps we should start knitting audiophile socks

To give more warmth to the listening experience.

[Refrigerator]

If you're spending so much money on your equipement you better not forget to buy an anti-virus protected HDMI cable!
Remember: Dont buy virus protection, buy anti-virus protection!

Still not as bad as the 7k dollar power cable. The Amazon reviews were glorious.

[Messtechniker]

I have a close friend who has a solid understanding of digital audio and a PhD candidacy in theoretical physics at UCSB, and he always believed cable thing is 24 karat bullshit, until recently he started buying so called HiFi headphone cables .

I discussed this phenomenon with a psychiatrist. She pointed me to towards the "Veblen Effect".
This effect is is described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good.
This piece of information helped me to understand a bit what is going on in these people.
Basically they are trying - through buying super expensive products - to demonstrate how financially and technically-wise able they are thereby raising themselves above others.
Knowing this, it is clear to me that the people suffering from the Veblen Effect have a simple ego problem. Comments from any psychiatrists here are welcome, since there may be other aspects and explanations for the behaviour described.