Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference?

Benzman, it's real simple. It's vastly more likely that those who think they hear differences in Ethernet cables are experiencing a mental phenomenon than there's some difference in the cable. If you buy into this snake oil, then do you also think memory chips have their own sound? Do routers and switches have their own sound? According to you they should! There's no evidence to support your claims. 

Benzman 4-25-2018
I don’t understand why folks that choose not to believe in differences in cabling actually debate with those of us that can detect differences in sound quality.

That seems to be a perennial question in debates such as this. And often parties on both sides of such debates tend to impute a variety of nefarious motivations to those on the other side.

My own belief on this question, which I haven’t previously stated, is as follows: I believe that the great majority of those on both sides of such debates are sincere in their beliefs and in their statements. What I believe is usually the motivation of the so-called naysayers can be illustrated with a hypothetical situation: Let’s say that in a music forum various classical music buffs were discussing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. And let’s say that someone submitted a post asserting in no uncertain terms that Bach was a third rate hack as a composer. Certainly the other participants would feel a natural urge to set the record straight. And it is my belief that so-called naysayers believe, rightly or wrongly (and perhaps in many situations the truth is sufficiently nuanced to lie somewhere in between), that what is being asserted by those on the other side of debates such as this is comparably ridiculous, as well as impossible. And consequently I believe their motivation in such situations is likely to be similar to that of the Bach connoisseurs in the hypothetical situation I described.

Regards,
-- Al

acepilot71
Ethernet cable is digital.
As such it cannot change the quality of the music.

>>>>Sorry, that’s the same illogical argument naysayers have been using for years to try to explain why there can be no differences between digital cables, the ones that connect to the external DAC - because it’s digital. The problem with that illogical argument is all signals - analog OR digital - are electromagnetic waves. As such they are subject to the same cable characteristics as any other cable - geometry, conductor material/purity, dielectric material, directionality, etc.

@geoffkait 
You clearly have no clue what you're talking about. 

How so, Mr Smarty Pants? That’s not much of an argument. If you don’t have an actual argument I’ll understand.