We tear apart a $340 audiophile Ethernet cable and look inside
Found on Ars Technica on Thursday, 23 July 2015
Potentially fantastical claims about audio clarity aside, the cable itself is of reasonably high quality, with braided and foil shielding around the entire cable coupled with foil shielding around the individual twisted pair bundles.
Of course, you can also use other shielded Cat7-equivalent Ethernet cables that cost one-tenth the Vodkas' price for the same purpose, so the fact that they're high quality cables doesn't really justify the price.
It's just an ethernet cable. For digital data. Meaning 0's and 1's only, nothing between. Even the best audiophile could not hear a flipped bit, but a computer could tell. So you can be pretty sure that the cables you can buy for a tiny fraction of that price do the same job just perfectly fine. There will still be people who claim that this cable makes everything better. If you think so, buy it along with a bottle of snakeoil.