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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Any good sounding AES/EBU interfaces out there?
Post Subject: How much of our troubles have been cables all along?Posted by Paul S on: 9/22/2007
I have been adding and reconfiguring gear recently and I will be needing a 6' digital cable very soon, when I add batteriy power, so I just went ahead and bought one of the "Synopsis" remainders Romy mentioned.

This $5 discontinued Belkin blue cable may be as good a piece of gear as I own, I kid you not.  Among other things it does a great job of limiting noise without screwing everything else up.  And when I say it makes digital more coherent, that is from me a BIG compliment.  IMO, normally, the more you get from digital, the less you get, if you know what I mean.

While I was at it I also took out some shielded ICs between the DAC and pre-amp and between the phono stage and pre-amp and I put in my well-made DIY OCC Litz stuff.  I knew all along that the Litz is "better" but I could not use it due to hum in my last place.

Well, no hum  at all  here now, and nice benefits from better cable, across the board.

Now to find something nice for the run between the phono transformer and the phono stage.  It has to be shielded, about 1/2 meter or so, RCA ends.  I need these shielded ICs because I have the short (unshielded) tone arm cables plugged directly into the tranny, up near the TT.

Best regards,
Paul S

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