Spec-chart for digital cables

HDMI cables are the biggest pile of junk I have found.

I’d qualify that if you’re using HDMI to utilize the i2S input on a DAC.  I did that and it kicked the living crap out of running SPDIF. 

Digital is just 1's and 0's.   

So now you think I'm a denier who thinks it is useless to upgrade digital equipment, it is perfect right?  

just the opposite.  

For file transfer it doesn't matter (much) as your computer will keep downloading until the new file matches the old file.  that is why sometimes it takes forever to download a file.  Dropped bits have to be re-downloaded.

for streaming, the FTP can't do this, so the key is to minimize the number of dropped bits since the music has to continue on without them.  So it is just 1's and 0's but it is a zillion of them coming out of a firehose and your equipment has to be able to handle them and your wires have to be able to transport them and the better they transport them, the less they mess up the rounded peak that represents a "1" the less bits end up going AWOL.  

So my point here is that it is more important to have the connectors and internal connections implemented properly than to choose a format.  USB got a bad rap, probably by measuring some generic equipment and then promulgated by those selling alternatives.  People will choose their equipment around which connectors it has, especially the I2S which has been marketed as the "replacement" for USB.  This is a fools errand.  Some of the best equipment in the world uses USB.

So you won't find the chart you want as it is a function of the manufacturer implementation rather than the cables.  I like silver plated cables by a reputable manufacturer.

Jerry

No chart is needed. The only difference there is is how they look they all do the same job

If you are thinking a spec sheet will somehow help you determine what they might sound like, or to construct to a sound. It is not going to do either of those.  
 

Somewhere in the research labs of some of the major cable producers there may be such a thing. With long lists of variables and how they may affect the sound. But even these would likely only be generalities. 
 

I am by my nature a numbers man. As a scientist in my first career and years as an analyst in the corporate setting. I threw away the numbers other than a few high level ones in audio. They just led to erroneous conclusions. 

To your point, I will agree that digital is still garbage in/garbage out.

For streaming you have packet loss, latency, bandwidth etc. which effect the signal prior to reception, so I am looking to ignore these and do a direct comparison of cable formats. With all factors being even, which cable reproduces the cleanest signal.

And yes I understand that cable construction will also effect the system, so we don’t need to head down that tangent.

mike