and yes I can easily hear the difference between DACs so I am not some ASR troll.
Do I need an expensive digital cable?
I have been using a fairly inexpensive optical cable to connect my CD transport to my Moon 280D streamer. I was told that an SPDIFcoax cable would sound better. For an experiment I purchased an inexpensive Pangea coax cable. It didn't sound at all because its terminator ends did not fit snugly in my equipment. I consulted chatgbt who often gives me audio advice. It advised that for the short run of 1 meter, an RCA interconnect would work. It did. And sounded much better than the optical. Chatgbt said that RCA interconnect was good enough.
Now, there is a twist to this story that might make those doubters think twice. A digital cable carries packets of information that are rechecked to assure that the streamer is recieving correct information. There is the timing concern, though. But my Moon 280D has an asynchronous DAC with a clock as part of the DAC. Any information sent by my transport, whether it is clocked by the transport or not, will go through the Moon's asynchronous DAC's clock. So ;there shouldn't be a timing problem. Should there?
Can anyone make a case that I should buy a "better" coax cable?
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This will probably work just fine. https://www.musicdirect.com/equipment/cable/audioquest-forest-digital-rca-cable/ I can't believe you're all still patronizing this guy. He's completely out to lunch you know. Rationalizes everything you say to him! |
@kumizi Why are you looking for evidence? How about the hundreds of very experienced people here who’ve clearly heard differences? Do you think they’re all fooling themselves and making it up? There’s absolutely no reason you can’t just try a cable from Veritas, DH Labs, etc. for little/no risk and hear for yourself. Or you can just keep looking for scientific evidence. 🙄 |
@soix yes I do Most of these people that claim the virtues of digital cables are buying things left and right without much thought and don’t come across as credible. I have yet to hear anyone I consider credible say expensive digital cables sound better. I have spent $4000-5000 on expensive speaker cables (both Nordost and Cardas) and they didn’t sound any better to me than $100 Belden cables. There was less difference between $5000 and $100 cables than toeing my speakers in or out by a couple inches. Im trying to figure out if I’m the crazy one or if 90% of audiophiles are full of **** or just gullible. I see pictures of people's systems with horrible speaker placement and no one has ever taken a measurement of their frequency response. But a USB cable or power cables "completely transformed their system."
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