On Jun 16, 2008, at 4:49 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote:

>
>
>> -----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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