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The best digital IC, period.

I've spent a great deal of time, too much really, to find the best IC between my transport to my DAC. After listening to six cables from some big names and big $$ as well as some not so well names for small $$. The winner came out to be a HAVE/CANARE $25 IC. With this cable there is no eye candy at all, ZED, but it's combination of GEPCO International, VSD2001 high definition 75ohm serial series digital coax, and CANARE true 75ohm RCA terminations, simply killed all of the esoteric cables with a few others coming in very very close, but the HAVE/CANARE $25, 3' was just beyond belief. Now I know that people feel strongly to use at least 1.5M in length for a DIC, but with this company I tried cables at length of 12" to 1.5M, i tried them all and the best of the buch was their standard 3' cable, defying the math. Hey, for 25$?
rpg
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bombaywalla
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Rpg,
good to read this & thank you for being up-front & admitting that the very high $ cables did not measure up. That takes a lot of candor & guts (as you well know). :-)
Now, where does one buy this Canare digital cable - the exact one that you bought? I'm looking for one to use btween my ipod dock & external DAC. Thank you.
rpg OP
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Bombaywalla, type in HAVE/Canare into your web browser and you will be brought to the HAVE website. They provide their telephone number to call them or you can select Digital IC's from their menu and order the cable. You will know you are on the right website as there is a picture of an Elephant on it. Enjoy!
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ozzy
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Rpg, Please provide information about the equipment that you are using.
rpg OP
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Ozzy, Wadia 171i Dock/Transport connected to one of the two digital inputs on my Cambridge AZUR 840C CDP. With the HAVE/Canare cable we could not tell the difference between playing a CD and the Wadia,(loss-less files) this was the only cable that could pull this off and that was after an intensive effort that took a great deal of time. During this effort I even included my budding Audiophile teenager helping out with his young ears picking up on the micro elements of the sound reproduction. These components are connected to Krell balanced amplification and Sonus Faber speakers.
jafox
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A statement about what was the "best" in a field of contenders is worthless unless those contenders are revealed.

As for Canare ICs for analog signals, I tried enough in 1m and 5m XLR lengths and they were horrible at best in the portrayal of space. $25 might be fine between NAD, Rotel or the like, but in a high-performance system, they are not at all in the same league as the Jade Audio, Stealth, Silent Source, Purist, to name a few.
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