I tried a Blue Jeans 3 foot plastic optical cable and came up thoroughly unimpressed. Both connectors were sloppy fitting.
Then I tried one of those Amazon Cables to Go 3ft glass cable. Great snug fitting connectors and the sound was a big improvement over the BJ cable. I am usually highly skeptical of cables but was surprised by the result. My coax cables are louder and the bass seems a bit looser and boomier. The coax is monoprice 16 gauge. I recently dissected one to convert to an XLR cable, and I'll have to sat it's a pretty well constructed cable with a good copper core. Anyway, I'm sold on glass toslink. It's not a big deal to me, it just works better with what I have. I'm sure there is better, but there always is. -- Stilly77 WHS 2011 server with LMS 7.7.1 > ASUS RT-N16 router (Tomato) AP > ASUS RT-N12 wireless bridge (DD-WRT) > 15ft Cat 6 unshielded > SBT (TT3.0 with sgbk mod) > 3ft glass optical interconnect > Emotiva XDA-1 DAC > XLR to rca interconnect > Little Dot Mk III (all Russian tubes) > Beyerdynamic DT-990 600 ohm headphones ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stilly77's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43680 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90211 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
