AudioQuest - Forest RJ/E 16.4' Digital Ethernet Cable with RJ45 to RJ45 Connectors - Black with Green Stripes

over the past several years there's been a revolution in the way people store, distribute, and access digital media (in real time), including photos, movies, and, of course, music. no longer dependent on physical media, our media is often data that's moved from multiple devices to multiple locations. for audio applications and protocols, audio over ethernet offers the virtues of high-speed, low time delay (latency), significant distance capability (328 feet without an active booster or repeater), and extremely low-jitter, bit-perfect communication. who wouldn't want all of these things? solid 0.5% silver conductors: solid conductors eliminate strand-interaction distortion and reduce jitter. solid silver-plated copper conductors are excellent for very high-frequency applications, like ethernet audio. these signals, being such a high frequency travel almost exclusively on the surface of the conductor. as the surface is made of high-purity silver, the performance is very close to that of a solid silver cable, but priced much closer to solid copper cable. this is an incredibly cost effective way of manufacturing very high quality ethernet cables. solid high-density polyethylene insulation: any solid material adjacent to a conductor is actually part of an imperfect circuit. wire insulation and circuit board materials all absorb energy (loss). some of this energy is stored and then later released as distortion. solid high-density polyethylene insulation ensures critical signal-pair geometry while minimizing insulation-induced phase distortion. terminations: gold-plated nickel connectors with 100% shield coverage. high-speed data capacity: the cat 7 cable standard has been created to allow 10- gigabit ethernet over 100 m of copper cabling. SKU:ADIB0073HAY18

AudioQuest Forest RJ/E prepared Cat 7 Ethernet cables use Solid 0.5% Silver conductors, which eliminate strand interaction, one of the biggest sources of distortion in cables, for clearer, more dynamic and involving sound. Superior conductor metals minimize distortion thanks to having fewer grain boundaries and fewer impurities (such as oxides) at those boundaries. Solid High-Density Polyethylene insulation helps maintain critical signal-pair geometry. Of course, all AudioQuest Ethernet cables are controlled for RF-noise directionality, efficiently dissipating noise away from the system's vulnerable audio circuitry; arrows indicate the direction (from source to destination) for the best audio performance.