Hi all,

I have just stumbled across this thread and am pleased that people here have taken inspiration from my choke cable (latest article January 2024) ethernet-sound.com

@Wijnand: It would be great if you would register on my site and share your development here. I see it as a give and take. It would be great if you would register on my site and share your development there. I see it as a give and take. There is also a forum where the whole thing is discussed further and where you are welcome to contribute. Also the background, how to wind, and how to avoid mode conversion in the cables - but maybe you already know all that yourself 😉

Anyway, it's nice to see that the audio community is benefiting from my research. Have fun!

Best regards from Germany to the Netherlands,

Eric

Hi Eric,

Thanks! Yes, of course sharing and contributing is very important to me. At the moment. I'm still researching the effects of power systems, power supplies, routers, switches, clocks, cables, streamers, galvanic isolators, Quantum fuses and filter shokes. It's an ongoing process for over a decade now. Everything seems to have an effect on a network, it's really hard to understand, because the effect takes 3 days to stabilize, still the outcome is still not perfect.

The filter shokes really work great! From now on I will use them and use less galvanic isolators. Additional filtering in an ethernet system works without a doubt. In the past I think it was from 2018 to 2021 I have worked with 8 Pink Faun isolators in my network, which also uses small cores in each transformer. With 8 Pink Faun isolators I reached a very good sound, but It was not perfect, due to side effects. Now I use the ferrite and Iron cores, but I still have some side effects in my network. It will keep me off the forums for a while, but when I'm done I will share my findings 🙂

Maybe in the meantime I have old research which also took me a few years.

https://forum.psaudio.com/t/ethernet-cables-and-sound/11297/400?u=wijnand

Best regards,

Wijnand

Hi Eric, I just looked into your forums, wow there's a lot to find!, but also already too much to stumble through. I will register for sure and contribute when I have figured things out. The 5 boxes I have built for some friends brought great reviews and it helps me for better understanding. No network seems to be equal above a certain level and my own network seems to be the most difficult despite it's a very simple one.

I started with streaming in 2009 with a PS Audio PWD. I will do my best to contribute on your forum as well in the future. I already wrote at least above 1000 articles on several forums to share my findings about thousands of hours testing things and equipment, sometimes it felt like a second job, which kept me very busy :-). It never payed out in terms of thanks for this or for that. Still I'm positive this must have helped many, many people and manufacturers. I have seen so many things that have changed, but it's always difficult to claim the outcome. Although ferrites are commonly used on signal cables. The drossel cable takes it to a new level for ethernet. Thanks for sharing! Bic time! Like I always do I will first dive into the materie and test everything I can think about, after that I will start reading what others have found out. The other way around never worked for me, because it's too difficult to understand what others hear and prevere.

Well Wijnand, let me be the first then:

THANKS! for sharing.

I am just picking up this thread where we left before I had to organise my intercontinental move. I wondered if you had advanced since you made these nice (sounding) boxes. I did buy some ferrite cores following your experiment but they are still in the container. And I look forward to build myself. So yes, please keep on sharing, it is from people like you we can learn a lot. Thanks.

Thanks Paul, you're the best 🙂 Nice to hear that moving to Sweden is done!

It's more that most progress we have gained in the past isn't physically touchable. We are learning and working individually together. I remember the times we started using PC's as streamers. There were so many steps, but how to thank somebody for progress or knowledge that isn't the same in every system? Especially when it's not physically touchable like a powersupply or a cable drossel. The work must be done and we all have the same goal. Better sound 🙂