@boxcarman for your reference, a month ago just for grins I had a 5yr old AQ Cinnamon Digi Coax sitting here, and swapped it back in play to compare to my other Analysis Plus Digital Crystal and my Cardas Digital Clear Digital coax.
It was a fun and quick test to remember and ask myself once again, is it more than just 0s/1s, or possibly something more going on here. It was a surprising test. I was not expecting to hear that much of a difference.
Well the AP and Cardas were close to each other. After an hour back with the AQ Cinnamon, I could not wait to get it out of the system and go back to one of the others. Yep, realizing again, yes, there is a bit more going on here. Was not expecting to hear that much of a difference, and sure enough, proved it to be a weak link for whatever reason, don’t care to figure out how or why, it just did not sound nearly as good, fwiw. Out it came, Cardas went back in place, done. :)