Differences between digital cables of varying quality/type are very easily discernible. I dont know with what 'coax/toslink' opaqueice did not find differences. The forum also needs to know his/her setup. If you cannot hear differences in jitter in a digital playback setup. One will be unnecessarily chasing after other things in the chain to improve bass/treble etc. In my experience, jitter is what separates digital playback from analog. Note, I only have an 'ordinary' analog setup and it is not my primary means of playback. But I can easily tell that analog playback is superior to 'run-of-the-mill' digital playback systems. After hearing the low jitter SB3 compared to my previous CD player. I can now believe when people with high-end digital playback systems claim that digital is equal or even better than analog. I ran a MSB Link Dac for 2 years with a cheap toslink, because as a CS/EE I thought digital is digital and cannot make a difference. My chance, I tried a different digital cable and heard a difference. Later, I read about jitter and found the explanation. First, recognize a phenomenon and then look for an explanation. Ofcourse, you can try ABX and all that, but this jitter differences between cables should be too obvious.
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