> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf
> Of William "Chops" Westfield
> Sent: 16 June 2008 11:15
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: [OT] Get your HIGHER QUALITY ethernet cables!
> 
> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/06/13/money-
> sense-250-ethernet-cable
> 
> I supposed it had to happen.
> 
> It's one thing to run digital data over ordinary cat5; but if you're
> running AUDIO data such inferior cable will surely degrade your audio
> quality!

It's *probably* just a marketing exercise, but this cable is for a
proprietary interface (Denon Link), and not necessarily plain old IP
over Ethernet.  Just perhaps standard cheap cables don't have tightly
enough controlled parameters to be guaranteed to work correctly for this
application?

Regards

Mike

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