EMM Lab DCC2 & CDSD Better connection?

Bernhard -- thanks for the report and the review. I am not the type to say "I told you so", especially in the face of such credible naysayers as J.T., but I was pretty sure, based on my own direct experience that folks would be very pleased with the new AS cable.

how often do you have to apply this IO gel?

Hello Nsgarch.
I know that people like the AS.
But i cannot spend 3000$ at this time.
So i thought maybe it would work with only one cable.
That was my intention.

There is one question i was forgotten:
Are all three cables from EMM or AS the same?
I know they are colored and i alsoo used the manual for the right connection.
But are they the same?

According to Tommy at AS, the cables he makes are not all the same and are matched to each other to make a set of three. I don't know about the ones that are supplied by EMM, but I think they would be all the same generic ST cable except for the colors. The main reason for the color coding is to insure the proper connection of outputs to inputs at each end of each cable. However, with the set from AS, the colors may also insure that you use the proper cable for each purpose. You should check that with Tommy.

In my system (using the SACD 1000 and DCC2) the ST Glass cables are incredibly inferior to the Stealth Varidig Sextet AES/EBU cable. My guess is that this will prove to be the case using the CDSD as well.