Any of the belden based + canare contact cables is as good as it gets . Several different brands makes them BJ cables or Marcus cables or the ones you discovered on ebay .
I got the Marcus cable variant but they are the same . That sorts you digital cable issue for a very modest cost , stay away from the more esoteric cables they only cost £££ for nothing basically . At the opposite end of the spectrum people have successfully used chicken wire or coat hangers :) and they still get error free connection over the short distances we have at home . For a long spdif run from another room 75ohm catv cable is useful . My most expensive digital cable (an audioquest, yes I'm joined the AA anonymous audiophiles) performed the worst . Not in SQ but in shielding , I used to live in apartment where I had a slightly broken light switch it arced when i used it and this arc produced audible clicks and pops trough the spdif interface .(an arc gives away wide band rf ) Belden or the Supra Trico cable was immune to this effect . Proving that that AQ cable was just fancy jewelry with rubbish shielding. But it had silver contacts very important for a digital signal ;) Depending on the DAC or the rest of the system don't count out the toslink interface the optocouplers can be a bit shoddy but you get galvanic isolation that can be a good thing. Just don't get trapped into "listening" to different coax cables :-/ -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=92030
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