I have found that with digital cable, it is mostly a matter of what MATCHES the current transport and dac in question. I have had silver digital cables (not elco), that sounded horrible on a Krell transport, but sounded great on a Theta. I have also mega-buck digital cable sound less than appealing on some combinations, and very nice on others. In my experience, digital cable is even MORE sensitive to system matching that interconnects. For example, everywhere I put Cardas interconnects, it sounds smooth, no matter which dac or preamp. But digital cable - it's all over the place. Finally, I would give it about 100 hours before getting too dissappointed. I have had brand new cables that I paid $2000 for and almost shot myself after hooking it up, but a few days later, it started to show it's true colors (yes, i think cables are colored :)
Bummer ELCO digital cable
Has anyone else purchased an ELCO DC-32 silver digital cable? I just got mine in the mail and its real harsh sounding! I know it should require a break-in period, but this thing sounds like crap and I cant see a break-in doing that much to help. Has anyone had a good experience with this cable? I've always heard that pure silver was the way to go?