Archimago wrote: > My opinion piece on digital cables (but much applies to analogue as > well). This one could make some folks unhappy! > > TGIF! > > Enjoy the weekend, everyone! > > http://archimago.blogspot.ca/2013/05/musings-audiophile-digital-cables.html
Good piece! Your experiment in using one half of an analogue interconnect as a coaxial digital cable is particularly interesting to me, as I use one half of a 3 or 4 metre analogue interconnect to connect my Touch to my DAC, because it's the only cable I own which is long enough (I want my Touch on my coffee table, where I can, er... touch it). The cable was £10 GBP I think for the stereo pair. (Radio Shack/Maplin or similar, I can't remember, it used to link my Nicam TV to my amp before the digital era.) The only "audiophile approved" digital cable I own is a QED one, (£35 GBP), and I've tried that, as well as a basic optical cable, and my informal testing (no ABX or measurements!) shows no difference. But then I suppose, to be sure, I should see if there is a difference between using the left as opposed to right half of my cable :). I can say, however, that the music is strangely unsafisfying when I connect the left channel of the cable to my Touch and the right channel to my DAC - what could be going on here? ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ darrell's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13460 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950
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