cymbop;665297 Wrote: > I'm also running a hardwired touch via coax into a W4S DAC-2. Can you > share your experiences with different coax cables or point me to a link > if you've reported on them already? I've only used my trusty Bluejeans > coax, and am really curious about the differences you heard with other > sorts.
My experience has been that while many coax cables sound different, which sound "better" appears to be more a matter of matching the particular components than anything else (exactly what I believe John Swenson said in a thread I read recently). I have a bunch of coax cables, some purchased, some constructed by various people. They range in price from a couple of dollars to a couple hundred or so, and I have had most for 20 years. I have tried maybe ten cables between the Touch and W4S DAC. While many produce slightly different sound, determining which produces the "best" let alone the "correct" sound is a tough call. For now at least, I have decided that my ancient MIT coax (the one with the little interface box with dipswitches) probably sounds best overall, but a very close second is another similar age Radio Shack video cable with BNC connectors and adapters, which cost ~10 back then. My maybe third favorite coax is a $3 Radio Shack really crappy looking video cable. Clearly, I haven't seen any correlation at all with price. I have a Blue Jeans coax I bought several years ago, so don't know how similar it is to current models. While it has never sounded bad, it has never provided the best sound in the few systems I have tried it in. Interestingly, I bought a recent vintage MIT digital when they had them for half price a while back. At first I kind of liked its sound (though it sounded different from the 20 year old one), but I would keep thinking I heard weird instances of high frequency noise when using it, particularly when I was listening at very low volume levels--and this happened only with that cable. Very odd. Have never encountered anything like it before. Eventually that newest cable was consigned to the wasted purchase bin. That about sums up my experiences with coax cables between the Touch and W4S DAC. Tried a cheap Toslink briefly too. Not bad, but not as good as the best few coax connections. -- ncarver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ncarver's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15905 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89359 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
