“If N20 survival hinges upon how you hear things through the AQ AES cable, I suggest you try atleast two-three different AES cables from the brands I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.”
@lalitk yes, I was thinking about that. My plan is to see how the first AES cable goes and see how much difference it makes, before moving to a different brand. Unfortunately my dealer (only dealer in town) doesn’t like shipping anything unless it’s not a sale. For some reason, they make an exception for Audioquest cables. They said something about them making shipping easier, and Audioquest pays for shipping. And that not all cable companies do. I offered to pay shipping for demos, but they didn’t like that approach for some reason. I will need to call around for other cables. Not that it means anything but I am quite familiar with the difference between the AQ Diamond USB and a small handful of other brands of USB cables. It’s also a fairly resolving cable with a good frequency range that doesn’t really have much of it’s own character at all. It doesn’t call attention to itself. It’s not what I call liquid or organic. It lets the character of surrounding components come through unaltered. Not sure if those qualities apply to the AES version as well.
That said, someone else mentioned that there was not as much of a variance in AES cables as there is in USB. But IF the AQ cable doesn’t pull the N20 clearly ahead of my Innuos gear (I’d say it’s a tie when using USB, they are both great at different things), then I’ll source more cable demos.