The inaudibility of Ethernet

Blackmorec said:

In any serious listening session I may listen to an hour’s worth of beautiful, new (to me) classical music with one or two favorites thrown in all courtesy of the Swiss (Swiss Radio Classic)

Their radio is a lot like their public transport and health system. Runs like clockwork, to a very high standard, with music as beautiful as their country. (Swiss)

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This just caught my eye and is a comment I appreciate. Yes, I have a lot of the usual high quality musical sources (CD's, LP's). But well over 75% of the music I listen to during the day is Radio Swiss Classical (morning) and Radio Swiss Jazz (afternoon). Superb curating and high quality throughout. Rado Swiss Jazz is particularly impressive because it plays a lot of music by excellent European musicians that nobody has ever heard of who I would not otherwise ever get to hear.

Hi love both stations as well, but what I find especially with Radio Swiss Classical is that if you listen to it enough, you start hearing a bit of repetition in the music.

BlueFox said:

The problem with Ethernet is not packet loss. It’s jitter. The jitter changes as the packet goes through each device. The end result for text data is none, but for music the jitter is audible.

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Jitter I imagine is why someone would make "a fancy cable" but its not needed in certain applications and sometimes jitter is not caused by the cabling.