99$ Digital cable is damn good

Another interesting conversation with distributor about Korean audio market.

MSB top DAC which cost 80K $ sell well in Korea.

Also CH Precision Dac is also popular in Korea, but the distributor himself does not like the sound from CH Precision feeling that it is somewhat artificially sculptured.

There is serious division of opinion about Total DAC in Korea.

Some people like it’s analogue sound, but other people are of the opinion is that it lacks details.


DCS is also selling well in Korea.

The distributor also sell Mytek Digital products which I had listened to his listening room using Scansonic speakers.

http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/mytek

http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/scansonic



I found the combination sound fine but falling little bit short of top end category.

It was my first occasion to listen to Mytek Digital and Scansonic speakers.


But they are reasonably good system without exorbitant price.

I like his show room treated with Artnovion acoustic product.


http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/artnovion_list

I may try them in the future in my listening room.



He also mentioned that manufacturing facility of Blackcat moved from Japan to Georgia recently.

@audioengr

I have never heard that RCA can it be terminated cleanly. You also suggest terminating to BNC, yet your above claim thus prove that to be false, as male RCA—>female RCA-to-male BNC adaptor—> female BNC can’t possibly be cleaner than male RCA—>female RCA. It’s not balanced, and any jitter differences can be easily ignored, unless you have a bottom of the barrel DAC.

BNC is not superior if the RCA cable is true 75ohm. However, that’s in the professional environment where the runs are meters upon meters upon meters. In a home environment, a 6ft digital coax cable is not going to sound worse as an impedance mismatch is insignificant.

I had got Blackecat cables with BNC termination but with two adapters to RCA.

So I have freedom to try to compare between BNC and RCA.

Jay's cdt2 mk2 has both BNC and RCA outputs.

But I do not have BNC input to Lyngdorf 2170.

I had been using Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 for 8 weeks.

It showed lot of details but etched out of box.

After 8 weeks, it got much better.

But after comparing with 200$ Silnote Morpheus II digital cables, they are close but I prefer latter with more organic sound.

The better performance came from Zenwave D4 digital cable (500$) which give much more refined and nuanced details.

Upper model of Blackcat digital cable may perform better but I do not want to try out them with long burn in time and high price.

Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 is not very bad but just ordinary Joe for the price.

I would rather recommend either 200$ Silnote Morpheus II digital cable or Zenwave D4 digital cable depending on your budget.

Choice of cable is dependent on system and personal taste.

So my judgement can not be final.

But I found nothing special with Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 digital cable.