Digital coaxial cable recomendations

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Hi all ive bought a Musical Fidelity X-DACv3 to go with my sb3,
what digital coaxial cable would you recomend without spending
loads, cheers ocean.
 
Re digital coaxial cable recomendatios

Canare / belden / mogami

All these cables seem to be value for money does anyone use them. (ocean)
 
I use Belden - from Mark Grant Cables:

http://markgrantcables.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

They seem fine to me. Put it this way - this cable allows my Beresford Caiman DAC to slightly outperform my Transporter compared with the Transporter's own analogue outputs.

I've not tried any super-foo digital cables (although I do use and recommend foo analogue cables).

If anyone thinks their digital cable might outperform the Belden then PM me and we'll have a digital cable bake-off.
 
I'm currently using a 10m+ Belden 1694A BNC to BNC between my Audio Synthesis Transcend and DAX. I did it as a casual test to find out what difference I would hear between it and a 2m 'audiophilic' cable. I couldn't discern any so have left the Belden in place.
 
On a similar topic I would be interested in views on optical cables as opposed to coax, interesting site by the way Mark Grant. I may try one out.
 
I use non-brand TOSLink cable between TV and hifi and also between Macbook and hifi. Works fine - even over quite a long run (15metre cable for the TV --> DAC cable). Otherwise Belden, Mogami or Canare coax is all good. I like the the Canare F10 RCAs, though a BNC connection is always preferable (it's really, strictly 75ohm, and the physical connection is simply better).
Blue Jeans would seem to be a good place for those who can't/won't make up their own.
 
you can't beat 75ohm sat downlead .....!!!

I built one so that my sb3 could sit further away from my dac ...it replaced an astonishingly expensive silver jobbie [of my own design] ...the sat down lead has been there two years now ...and I dont feel any inclination to change ....

money doesn't always solve a problem !
 
I'm using an Atlas Element coax cable, between my SB3 and DAC. (€40,-)
Element_Digi_RCA-RCA.jpg


Sounds great to me! :) ( http://www.atlascables.com/index.php?id=227 )
 

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