Is there a better quality Firewire cable?

Br3098, I will also quote one of my physics professors, "If you think we fully understand nature, you will not make a good physicist. Always keep your eyes open for anomalies."

Pardon me if I respond no further. Life is too short.

Hi Tbg,

I bought my 8N-6P-6PI cable locally in Australia.

The Cable Company lists them (look under Acrolink).

However, I'm pretty certain that they come only in combinations of 4 and 6 pins.

I do not know if firewire cables make a difference, but for peace of mind, I bought Granite digital firewire (800) cables from MacGurus.com for my computer based setup:

http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/firewire/FW800Cables.php

Cheers.

Thanks for this, Bryoncunningham, they look good and not too pricey. Interestingly I did not find them in a Google search.

Prior to me having the Siltech Firewire (3yrs ago), have always listened to my 6yrs old dCS stack in their up-sampled mode of 44.1->176.4/192 (via Siltech double AESBUs). Yes, better Firewire cables do make significant differences so much so that I found myself now preferring/listening in their 44.1->DSD up-sampled mode almost exclusively.

I added the 2 x Siltech FW-6 classic mkII replacing the standards much later as I too was initially skeptical for same reason some mentioned above, but listening is believing. My only regret is that I should have done it sooner.