Is there a better quality Firewire cable?

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.

The physics professor was wrong. I am a scientist as well. If I understood everything that I reliably observed to have occured, I'd never learn anything new.

By definition you do not know the mechanisms/explanations behind every solid observation. It may just be 0's and 1's but different digital rigs, CD players, DAC's sound differently on the same source material.

One problem that scientsit have is if their modesl or measurements don't explain it, they don't believe it. I posit that we do not measure important aspects of sound reproduction that our brains can differentiate. Just recently I sat and listened to speakers with Jim Salk. He made the point that he had speaker protoypes that measured esactly the same yet did not sound the same.

yes, there is snake oil and exaggeration where cableing is concerend. However, the key is to sort out the real dela from the BS.

By the way what are the recommendations for firewire cabling? I am going to need to get some for my new server/dac set-up.

Jaymark, there are countless examples of scientists missing regularities in data because of their paradigm. I love the self-declared scientists who don't listen because their paradigm says differences are impossible.

I sought advice from the top people I know in digital. Most seem to have little experience with Firewire or hesitate to make recommendations as they are manufacturers. I have made no real comparisons. I did buy Granite Digital Firewire cables and did compare them with Firewire cables I got with my Western Digital 2 TB HDD. I can hear that the Granite cables are slightly better. But I never really broke-in the Westerns the way I have the Granites.

There are a number of cable manufacturers whose Firewire cables I would like to try, but apparently it is expensive to get a license for using Firewire.

I am confident, however, that Firewire connections are the way to go. Again, however, it is just the results I am getting with the Mac/Amarra/Firewire/Minerva setup. I have multiple dacs but none afford me the opportunity to compare Firewire with USB, S/P DIFd, or AES/EBU. I do have much experience to suggest that ripping to HDD or SSD excels over optical readers, including new blu-rays.