Digital Cable Recommendations

@ghdprentice

+1 (emphasis added) …. On both counts. This is the best advice you will get in this thread.

from personal experience, avoiding disappointment vis-a-vis something lacking from LEIF model level NORDOST cables is real. I heartily concur that until you move up to their NORSE model levels at a minimum , or preferably better …. look elsewhere. There is a reason why many audio expo exhibitors use NORDOST VALHALLA cables . ( but these are $$$$$)

I’ve owned NORDOST PURPLE FLARE, NORDOST FREY, and NORDOST HEIMDALLs. I’ve auditioned them all in the LEIF and NORSE model range. The FREYS gave me a sweet spot between performance and budget. I also found CHORD RUMOUR and ODYSSEY cables at a lower price outperformed the PURPLE FLAREs and the rest of the LEIF models in my systems,

I also enthusiastically recommend CARDAS CLEAR as my go-to top performer.

I upgraded my entire cables loom to CARDAS CLEAR from NORDOST FREY. The FREYs were very good, but an irritating digital “edge” / and upper level brightness persisted . With the intro to the CC loom, it was thankfully tamed along with an upgrade in audio performance that was not subtle..

I would call Patrick Cullen and if he still makes them purchase one of his digital cables.  

Get a Jorma digital cable and then you can call it quits

You might like the Hijiri Million digital cable: http://combak.net/cables/HIJIRI-Interconnect-Cables.html

Jorma +1  That thing is ridiculous.  Torched my Nordost Valhalla 1.  Now runs in my main system.  Gifted one to a friend and he had the same reaction.  Attributes of transparency, attack, larger sound stage and quieter.

Was hoping for better and got fully a reference wire.