Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference?

@kosst_amojan gravity has pretty big impact is audio world, and in the way we all understand it well - it forces everything (including cables) to go down and end up on the floor close to each other. Believe me - I know, I have jumped out of airplanes and there was no cases of not landing...

And there, on the floor, when cables are close to each other and parallel to each other, EM kicks in.

That is where I can agree that high quality shielding and proper twisting of the pairs can make a difference. But difference in noises reduction.

Hope everyone can agree with my gravity understanding :-)

I didn't even bother to shield the 600VA transformer in my amp. And why? Because Nelson Pass doesn't bother to. And it makes virtually no difference. Twisting is generally the safeguard against crosstalk between signal pairs. For the audio range anything more than 6 twists a foot wastes wire. Shielding on cables is nice, but I found the best results inside my amp to be solid 24g twisted pair. The beefy, high dollar shielded stuff I used at first didn't perform as well. I'm thinking of making interconnects out of that stuff, though they would be stiff as all hell. The speaker cables I built are made of 6 pieces of 16g OFC, wrapped in cloth, round braided, and terminated in gold with silver solder. Those made a surprising difference. Not that I've ever had a problem with cross talk between cables, but I can't seem to make any noise appear on those no matter what I lay them next to. I kinda like making cables. 

kosst_amojan

Bill Nye ... is hardly any authority on science by training or trade seeing as he's a mechanical engineer.

Mechanical engineering is very much a science, kosst. That makes him more of a scientist than you.

I have to concur with the naysayers but also want to add another angle to consider.  No device takes the bits off the network and immediately converts the information into sound.  There are buffers in the receiver that are likely several MB in size.  This is why something keeps playing for a few seconds even if you cut the network connection.

So ... the bits come over the wire and get stored in the buffer and your equipment, DAC or whatever, drains that buffer and turns it into sound.  So I don't see how the quality of network cable affects the sound since all its doing is filling a buffer.