Digital XLR vs. Analog XLR - Balanced Cables

Ckoffend - Purcell, being upsampling DAC (and not oversampling), most likely rejects jitter. Quality and type of cable might be not very important (it isn't with my Benchmark - also upsampling DAC).

The temporary cables that I have tried, to confirm that I am getting the full 24/192 upsampling sound very good. As I previously mentioned, to upconvert to this level, it is required that I used two balanced digital cables to handle the full bandwidth. DCS indicates that it is impossible to transmit this amount of bandwidth on either a Coax digital cable, a glass optical digital cable or a single balanced AES/EBU cable. I don't necessarily question this, but before spending a several hundred dollars per cable, I wanted to be sure that the two appropriate cables would actually deliver the required upsamping level I wanted to hear/test. Since I have plenty of balanced analog cables, I was just seeking a reasonable and fast opportunity to test.

I don't know why DCS want to transfer signal on two cables (Benchmark uses one for 24bit/192kHz) but jitter rejection properties might make cable discussion irrelevant.

Ckoffend-

You can try them; they should work. You have nothing to lose.

OTOH, I would be more certain that digital cables would work for analog.

Kal

The only thing about cables that is going to make any difference as to jitter is whether the cable has sufficient bandwidth so as not to cause jitter due to the inherent characteristics of the data signal itself. Even then there should be correction circuitry at the converter stage to correct for any transmission induced jitter. Likely, the analog and digital versions of the XLR cables both exceed the bandwidth necessary to avoid transmission induced jitter.