TiredLegs;152981 Wrote: > The $30 cable was glass optical fiber, and the $70 Monster was plastic > fiber, so obviously they weren't identical. I am well aware of Monster > Cable's huge markups. That's why I was actually expecting the cheaper > glass fiber cable to sound better, but to my ears, they sounded > identical. Yet I can change analog interconnects, and readily hear > differences. This is on a very revealing system, with a Dodson DAC and > output to AKG K1000 headphones. The K1000's are a virtual microscope > for detecting even tiny audio changes. > > My overall point is that if there are differences in the performance of > my digital cables, those differences are so subtle that I can't hear > them, in which case, I don't, and shouldn't, care about them.
Hold on...The Dodson DAC is supposed to have some jitter reduction built in because of memory based buffering. Also, your transport also could be very low jitter. Now the changes brought in by the cable are miniscule in comparison. Good that you mention, "I don't and shouldn't care about them". This conclusion does not apply to all other people sadly though !!! -- SoftwireEngineer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SoftwireEngineer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7000 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
