Flare LAN Cable: Network Streaming Optimized for Audio
Flare LAN cable addresses a reality most network cables ignore: audio streaming has different requirements than data networking. Gigabit speeds are irrelevant when high-resolution audio requires only 10-15 Mbps. What matters is RF management and signal integrity in the presence of network switching noise and ground contamination.
Architecture for Audio Streaming: Flare employs four heavily shielded conductors with M101’s Boundary Condition Stabilizer (BCS) integrated into the cable structure. Unlike conventional Ethernet cables optimized purely for maximum data rate, Flare prioritizes RF isolation and ground noise management, the factors that actually affect streamed audio quality.
Why Network Cables Affect Audio Quality:
Your network carries not just data, but RF contamination:
- Switch-mode power supplies in network switches, routers, WiFi access points
- Ground noise from multiple devices on the network
- RF from adjacent data traffic and wireless signals
- Clock jitter propagating through the network infrastructure
This RF contamination reaches your streamer or network player, where sensitive analog stages convert digital data to audio. Poor RF isolation means this network noise becomes audible, raised noise floor, reduced spatial clarity, electronic grain.
Flare’s BCS Approach: The cable structure creates controlled RF impedance characteristics that reduce network-borne contamination before it reaches your audio equipment. Heavy shielding with both-end shield grounding provides comprehensive isolation from external RF while managing internal signal integrity.
What You’ll Hear:
Lower Noise Floor: Background silence, genuinely black rather than gray. Hall ambience, subtle reverb tails, low-level instrumental detail emerges that was masked by network RF contamination.
Improved Spatial Precision: Soundstage gains clarity and three-dimensional specificity. Images lock more solidly with better depth perspective. The “electronic fog” that homogenizes space diminishes.
Better Timbral Accuracy: Instruments sound more like themselves, less electronic character, more acoustic truth. The subtle differences between similar instruments become more apparent.
Reduced Digital Harshness: High frequencies sound cleaner, less “glassy” or artificially emphasized. Cymbals, strings, and vocal sibilants have more natural texture, less digital edge.
Enhanced Micro-Dynamics: Small dynamic variations, breath control, bow pressure, finger pressure, communicate more clearly. The sense of musical expression and performer intention increases.

