Of course it is not a standard SPDIF cable, nor is it a "CAT5" cable, since it is running a proprietary digital "link" protocol.
Just because it
might be carrying something other than ethernet frames doesn't mean it's not a Cat5 cable. Look closer at it. See the colors of the inner conductors? Now look at the colors of the inner conductors of a nearby Cat5 cable. Look familiar?
It's just a perfectly ordinary Cat5 cable they've gussied up and put a $400+ price tag on. Like so many things in the business, it's complete and total snake-oil. It's sucker-bait, and I'll bet you money some douchebag is going to write up a review in one of the audiophool rags claiming this cable is the bee's knees, the wasp's nipples, and the erogenous zones of every flying insect known to man; that it "enhances the warmth and tessitura of the image", and then every idiot with more money than brains will be out buying the stupid things.
I
love the marking on the headshell showing the "optimum signal flow",
it points both ways! Tell me this isn't being marketed directly to people who are rich and stupid!
What that is, and what its requirements are might be telling in this case...
Please tell me you're kidding. If not, it's time you spit out the Kool-Aid.
--Thom
Killer Audio One Zero Gravity Copper
