[3] EtherSound is intended by the developer to be compliant with IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standards.

While Ethersound is compliant with the IEEE 802.3 physical layer standards, logically it uses a token passing scheme for transporting audio data which prevents all of its features from being used on a standard Ethernet network.

It is not designed to share Ethernet LANs with typical office operations data or Internet traffic such as email.

It supports two-way communications only when wired in a daisy chain topology.

[6][note 2] EtherSound can deliver up to 64 channels of 48 kHz, 24-bit PCM audio data with a network latency of 125 microseconds.