Digital Interconnects

There is only one way to find out. Just be sure to borrow some cables or at least make sure you can return a bought cable if you don't like what you hear.

There is only one way to find out. Just be sure to borrow some cables or at least make sure you can return a bought cable if you don't like what you hear.

Like OD says...

Try a freebie RCA interconnect lead and see if it sounds any different?

Or seeing as you have a G1500HD, try:

http://markgrantcables.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath...

30 day returns policy as I'm sure you know.

Please do try beforeyou commit to buy, such as a cable with a returns policy. It is very hit and miss whether there will be any SQ improvement and if there is one, what the SQ improvement will consist of.

As with any digital electrical interface, it operates at much higher frequencies than most interference, and as so, isn't really affected by most of it. Certainly less affected than analog. Upgrading from cheap pound shop rca leads to better quality ones would give a much bigger SQ improvement than upgrading from a cheap S/PDIF cable to an expensive one...

With optical toslink connections, the money spent on a better cable goes into making the cable surround protect the glass fibre better. There'll be no improvement in sound quality what so ever unless the fibre is broken, and then it'll simply break up, in a binary "all or nothing" style, than degrade the sound... I recently got a new toslink cable because my old one was breaking up occasionally. The difference in brightness at the ends when I compared new and old was huge. No more breaking up, but sound quality obviously didn't improve beyond that...

I will be sure to demo on trial if I do go down this road.

I just wondered if anyone has tried experimenting with different COAX cables? Surely someone has who can offer opinions!!!!!

Thanks

Ambrose

I disagree, certainly with respect to different cables whether coax or toslink. You may hear some difference in SQ depending on the differing levels of jitter that the cables impart on the signal. Basically the signal goes into the cable as a square wave and as it goes along the cable may have the edges rounded so that the transition from "high" to "low" or vice versa is not so clearly defined. This leads to timing issues at the other end (normally a DAC) and its this timing error that is known as "jitter". To what expect a cable imparts jitter on a signal and you can hear any difference can only be measured via listening to one cable against another.

As others have said here, compare cables and be sure you can return them if you don't want them.

Jitter is a non issue in modern audio electronics, it's no more than a scare word put out there to get people to spend more money needlessley, and it doesn't help people by telling them otherwise IMO..

Ooh, now I'm running scared

try the Chord Signature digital cable it is stunning.

This topic is making me jittery, need a drink I think 

For the record, I am using one half of an analogue interconnect as a coax digi cable. It sounds exactly like the one I misplaced...don't ask

I would. but £190 is way past my budget

What changes did you notice over previous (?) cable please?

Thanks

Ambrose

Dr Lodge, can you show any evidence of jitter

1 - being audible

2 - affecting sound quality

As a man of science (or maybe philosophy, in which case please resourt to science) you will have loads of evidence of such. 

Hi Max,

I take it you are non-believer.

I go by what I hear, if I like / perceive improvement then

Else I will return nothing lost, except postage.

I am a recent convert to mains / power cords.....