Ok fine... and it�s at this point that I need to call COMPLETE BS on this latest particular claim of the Silver cable influencing the sound produced by the v8/ID41 combo.

In thousands of tests around the world, RFI Mitigation has been shown to be influenced by cable Shielding only... and is NOT in any way influenced by the Core material of the cable itself... The cable�s Core material has been shown in many tests to have ZERO influence on the transfer of Packetized Ethernet data... so the use of Copper, Silver, Fibre or many other alloys has ZERO impact on the Integrity of that transfer.

Secondly, as it�s Packetized Data, with built-in error correction and packet re-transmission, that is being carried by the core... again we know the Robustness of those Ethernet transfer protocols due to the numerous Tests, Data Validations and Acceptance at many Super Critical Installations around the world like Banks, Stock Exchanges, Nuclear Power station etc.

Hell, we ourselves rely on its Robustness so that we know what we are reading on this very page is what the poster actually wrote... and not some errors or typos that were introduced as part of the data transfer to our screens.

Thirdly, in your last post, you�re comparing the PCM Transfer over a SPDIF cable to the transfer of Ethernet Packetized data over a CatX cable... this only goes to show a complete naivety on your part about the CRITICAL difference between these 2 completely different data transfer mechanisms.

PCM over SPDIF is Streamed Data with zero Error Correction, no Timing Data and no Data Retransmission... the Receiving device just has to �process� the data as it arrives and assume that all the data is there and in the correct order.

Ethernet Packetized Data has Error Correction, Checksums & Packet Retransmission to ensure that no outside factors can influence the Data itself... leaving the Receiving device certain about the Data and its Timing integrity. And as stated above, its Robustness & Integrity is proven in Trillions of Data transactions around the world every single hour of the day.

ANY comparison of Streamed PCM over SPDIF to Ethernet over CatX is simply a null and void comparison.

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