Description
The TUBULUS Ximius Ethernet Cable is our flagship ethernet cable and is very ‘analog’ sounding. It’s based on pure silver conductors. These are solid core conductors to minimize strand interaction, which is a major source of distortion. With a special thermo-process the silver wires are restructured at a molecular level to reach a quality close to mono crystal silver.
Each conductor consists out of multiple pure silver wires. These multiple silver wires are individually insulated by air. Which is unique for a ethernet cable. Air insulation is used because (next to a vacuum) air is the best dielectric.
This air insulation is made possible by our unique Septet Helix Tube Construction which can only be made by hand. With this Septet Helix Tube Construction the silver wires are held firmly into place to prevent the wires from vibrating freely in the air.
To preserve signal integrity the conductors are individually shielded. An overall foil screen and a thick copper braid completes this triple shielding with a 100% coverage and very low resistance.
To prevent radio frequency interference (RFI) from modulating the ground reference, skin effect filtering is applied to the shield. This is a very effective way to eliminate noise and RFI before it reaches the component.
The TUBULUS Ximius Ethernet Cable is finished with shielded RJ45 plugs which are soldered with silver containing solder. All this makes it a one of a kind ethernet cable.
The TUBULUS Ximius Ethernet Cable is available in a 100Mbps and a 10Gbps version. The 10Gbps version is also designed for i2s (LVCMOS) signal transport and can be used as a i2s cable between streamers/cd playes and DAC’s with a RJ45 i2s connection.
TUBULUS ethernet cables are hand crafted with love, expertise and devotion with no excess decoration or luxury packaging and therefore true value for your money!
For more information or custom cables please contact us by email: [email protected]
WHY BUY A TUBULUS ETHERNET CABLE?
A high end ethernet cable may sound like nonsense. After all it’s just 1’s and 0’s it has to transport. Any ethernet cable can do that. But those 1’s and 0’s have to be transported by a bunch of electrons traveling through a wire and electrons don’t know if they are ‘analog’ or ‘digital’. In fact, all electrical signals are analogue.
However, the digital signal is different; it is a pulse train, a square wave instead of a sine. But a perfect square wave doesn’t exist, because transition from one to zero requires time. So there is always a rise/fall time and the edges of the square wave will be rounded. In fact the square wave is a kind of trapezium with rounded edges.
Depending on the quality of the cable, the corners of the square wave will round off to a greater or lesser degree and the “flat” portions of the wave will become uneven as well. Small changes will make it harder for the receiver to detect the exact moment the rise or fall is happening. This will induce jitter. And if the changes become too big, the receiver will not even be able to reconstruct the logical 1’s and 0’s properly.
This is why a high quality ethernet cable like the TUBULUS Ximius can make great improvements in sound quality.
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