dlite;144265 Wrote: > I am not a believer in particularly expensive cables, although a certain > level of quality is desirable in connections and the cable. Quality RGA > Belden RG6 cables for example, terminated well will be nearly as good > as anything on the market regardless of price, but I do think that if > you do not really know what you are doing your solder/crimp connections > etc will have problems in time, especially if you run an audio business > like me where you are constantly disconnecting and reconnecting > components you will soon have problems. I've got to agree with you there, so that'll be $/£10 for a cable, anything else is a waste of money.
dlite;144265 Wrote: > > One difference in the communications industry is because of the > protocols used bad packets normally get re sent this does not happen > for the spdif connections we are talking about. That's not strictly true in communications, networking yes but the cable runs I mentioned are pure bits, there are no protocols or error correction performed on them. Single bit errors are counted but they don't occur in the cables unless there is a fault. Craig -- Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Craig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=96 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26052 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
