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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
antigrunge
74 posts
 
My vote goes to the Acoustic Revive cable on Sp/DIF and while I have experimented with Siltech, Chord and others, I feel that on the Acoustic Revive replacing the wallwart with a linear PSU yields real benefits. I think there is a need for research on the transmission of clock signals in digital links which are paramount for good results and Acoustic Revive's circuitry majorly contributes to accurate clocking.

USB is a different topic, altogether
steelgtr
2 posts
 
Link to the have/canare cable? I can't find the exact product on the have site.

thx

bob
sabai
2,027 posts
 
Musicxyz, since Audiogon makes it difficult to PM at the moment I would appreciate hearing your opinion about the difference between the HiDiamond D7 and D8 speaker cables.
musicxyz
53 posts
 
I really appreciate you asking and trusting my opinion but unfortunately mentioning that you prefer one brand over another on these forums is taboo unless it is a name recognition brand. I will try and keep my opinions to myself and just watch the same 10 name recognition brands get all the headlines.
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glory
1,614 posts
 
Xyz,

Sabai asked a question to you that shots down your thought of only 10 brands get all the talk. He wants to know about the HD line.

Nobody shot you down. Folks here want to make sure everyone is upfront and honest with one's thoughts on gear and is not from a dealer.

Fair?
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