Zavfino Majestic USB Cable

Supra Audio Excalibur USB cable $140 for 1 meter, best I have.......the other $1,000 of cables are in a drawer

@thyname "Yes.  Just like interconnects, speaker, and power cables can make a big difference.  Rather than being a digital cable denier I’d suggest you try a better digital cable and use your ears rather than theory to make any conclusions.  BTW, what digital cable are you using now?"

Your statement conflates analog and digital communications So how are the zeros and ones made better?

No one on this thread has yet to give any plausible explanation for how a Layer 1 cable impacts sound quality. 

There are lots of things that can impact SQ in the analog realm that possibly relate to cables, but none of those apply to digital. It is in the very architecture of digital communications that this is so. Analog and digital communications simply function entirely different ways. This is not a matter of discussion; it is physical fact.

Just like there is no such thing as quantization error in analog; there are no such things as RF rejection, or ground loops in glass fiber. And at Layer One in digital communications, whether copper, glass fiber or RF (WiFi and Bluetooth) there are only zeros and ones, regardless of whether it's audio, video, social media or e-commerce. That's all there is, nothing more. Until you grasp that simple concept, you simply cannot claim any understanding of digital communications, or what may ultimately impact sound quality exiting a DAC.

@panzrwagn : You never answered my question. So here we go for the fifth time:

Do you stream music? If you do, how? Can you please explain your music streaming setup, from source to DAC? Thank you. Maybe I can learn a thing or two about digital communications 🙄

@thyname "And please enlighten me, where else in cables we should look for a difference maker?"

You shouldn't be looking at cables at all, you should be looking at Codecs, more specifically how a given codec has been implemented, and the containers used.

And the containers

With even a quick browse you'll realize there's lot of ways these algorithms can be and are implemented, and coding one way and decoding in another can lead to all kinds of spurious output issues.  

Great. You really think I would open your links? 😂

@panzrwagn : 

You never answered my question. Perhaps you missed it. Let’s try again. So here we go for the sixth time:

Do you stream music? If you do, how? Can you please explain your music streaming setup, from source to DAC? Thank you.