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The best digital IC, period.

I've spent a great deal of time, too much really, to find the best IC between my transport to my DAC. After listening to six cables from some big names and big $$ as well as some not so well names for small $$. The winner came out to be a HAVE/CANARE $25 IC. With this cable there is no eye candy at all, ZED, but it's combination of GEPCO International, VSD2001 high definition 75ohm serial series digital coax, and CANARE true 75ohm RCA terminations, simply killed all of the esoteric cables with a few others coming in very very close, but the HAVE/CANARE $25, 3' was just beyond belief. Now I know that people feel strongly to use at least 1.5M in length for a DIC, but with this company I tried cables at length of 12" to 1.5M, i tried them all and the best of the buch was their standard 3' cable, defying the math. Hey, for 25$?
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bobheinatz
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Musicxyz,

Have you heard and CHACOUSTIC cables? Opinion?
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glory
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What was your # one cable before HD?
rpg OP
126 posts
 
Ozzy, you have had some time to break-in the HAVE/Canare 6' Digital IC, what is your conclusion with this cable? If you have found it was not the best Digital IC you have used, what did you replace it with that sounded better and what was the retail price of the better cable, still, I have yet to find a better cable considering all sonic qualities of Digital IC's.
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ozzy
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RPG, The Morrow Dig4 with silver eichman RCA is still the best cable I have ever owned or tried. But to be honest, I have'nt tried that many.
The Have/Canare is a very good cable for the price but the Morrow has more depth and smoothness.
sabai
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Musicxyz, I am running an AES/EBU digital cable at the moment. Would you say that the HiDiamond digital (which is not available in AES/EBU) is better sounding than even the best XLR digitals you have tested?
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