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Why do digital cables sound different?

I have been talking to a few e-mail buddies and have a question that isn't being satisfactorily answered this far. So...I'm asking the experts on the forum to pitch in. This has probably been asked before but I can't find any references for it. Can someone explain why one DIGITAL cable (coaxial, BNC, etc.) can sound different than another? There are also similar claims for Toslink. In my mind, we're just trying to move bits from one place to another. Doesn't the digital stream get reconstituted and re-clocked on the receiving end anyway? Please enlighten me and maybe send along some URLs for my edification. Thanks, Dan Danielho  (Threads | Answers | This Thread) 12-01-00

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Click title to read one, or click date to read all below it. 12-01-00   Dan, you've just asked the $60,000 question. there is debat ...   Macm 12-01-00   What an honest and measured response macm just made. i think ...   Najo 12-01-00   Since we are talking about a digital signal (digits/numbers) ...   Sugarbrie 12-01-00   Gotta disagree guys. my dac/pre (accuphase dc-330) allows m ...   Cornfedboy 12-01-00   I think that the placebo effect can be blamed for most of it ...   Dtf 12-02-00   Dtf: yeah, and i bet your wife/girlfriend is indistiguishabl ...   Cornfedboy 12-02-00   I have to say they do sound different. i don't know why. the ...   Nilthepill 12-02-00   What amazes me about the cynics' justifications for not hear ...   Frogman 12-02-00   I understand that, in theory, there shouldn't be a differenc ...   Mistalava@ 12-02-00   I don't care what any of the critics say there is a differen ...   Pops 12-02-00   I wasn't trying to start a religous war here when i asked th ...   Danielho 12-02-00   I share others' puzzlement here. differences between coax a ...   Drubin 12-02-00   Danielho, again i think it is important to look at these iss ...   Frogman 12-02-00   There is a reason. the digital signal is transferred at a mu ...   Bruce1483 12-02-00   Bravo bruce, precisely my point.   Frogman 12-02-00   Danielho - to answer your latest post, no, there is nothing ...   Kthomas 12-02-00   Pops or anybody: is the illuminati d60 the same as the curr ...   Dekay 12-02-00   Ask and ye shall receive. frogman set off my bs detector. ...   Drubin 12-02-00   Drubin: no. this is a case where "bits is bits" - ...   1439bhr 12-02-00   It all boils down to this, all cables distort/degrade/alter ...   Megasam 12-03-00   Drubin, you claim to be open minded.i say not open minded en ...   Frogman 12-03-00   Dekay, i believe they are one in the same, that illuminati a ...   Pops 12-03-00   Thanks pops. david.   Dekay 12-03-00   Fair enough, frogman. good post. i am mostly a subject ...   Drubin 12-03-00   I just ordered the mapleshade double helix digital cable. i ...   Dekay 12-03-00   Megasam: yes, all cables have some effect (i.e., error) on t ...   1439bhr 12-03-00   First - the digital datastream carried on a coax connection ...   Redkiwi 12-03-00   Even with perfect square waves there will be jitter in a clo ...   1439bhr 12-03-00   For some reason all of these explanations are never good eno ...   Bmpnyc 12-03-00   Hear hear.   Dekay 12-04-00   My experience is that there are definite differences between ...   Onhwy61 12-04-00   Another point: it could be that different cables have differ ...   1439bhr 12-04-00: Bmpnyc 1439, I agree with you as well, but I think there are enough possible explanations available to accept that there are differences between cables, and get on with picking the best one for their system, instead of continuing to deny that reality. Bmpnyc  (Threads | Answers | This Thread) 12-04-00   I'm not denying reality, just looking for plausible explanat ...   1439bhr 12-04-00   1439, i was speaking generally and not personally. it seems ...   Bmpnyc 12-04-00   1439 - i agree with your point 100% and have made it myself ...   Kthomas 12-04-00   You make a mistake if you think that just transmitting the b ...   Redkiwi 12-04-00   Bmpnyc... no offense taken. if there's a physical effect, th ...   1439bhr 12-04-00   Redkiwi - you're right that having time synchonization requi ...   Kthomas 12-04-00   first of all, the different digital interfaces have differ ...   Blues_man 12-05-00   I would like to reply to your question. no, no, no, no, no, ...   Gmkowal@ 12-05-00   Bruce, cut the crap! we are not talking about frequencies in ...   Gmkowal@ 12-05-00   With all due respect, and i respect your 20 year experience ...   Frogman 12-05-00   Hey gmkowal, digital cables do sound different!. from a theo ...   Ehider 12-05-00   Why is it that when refuting the argument that there is no t ...   Kthomas 12-05-00   I have a small confession.. i enjoyed choosing the cables in ...   Bmpnyc 12-05-00   Response to kthomas about not offering up a hypothosis. i re ...   Ehider 12-05-00   I think i am repeating myself, but continue to get replies w ...   Redkiwi 12-05-00   Redkiwi: i get it. it is not only that you say yes and no, ...   Dekay 12-05-00   Redkiwi, the overshoot and undershoot you speak of is caused ...   Gmkowal@

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