SPDIF Cable, longer is better! (Interesting articel)

[Flecko]

I want to give an update to this topic. I changed my setup. Now my pc is closer to my DAC. I tried different spdif cables between my Audio-GD DI and the Ref7. The outcome was, the best sounding cable was a 0.8m long digital cable from Van den Hul (digicoupler). Also a 1.2m long noname china digital cable sounded better than my 5m sommer digital cable. Interesting was, that coupling the DI direct to the DAC didn't sounded es good as with the digicoupler. I tested the the digital cables with my spdif test setup too. For that, a modified Pioneer PDS-707 is used. It has an digital out and input that can be switched. If I shortcut the input and the output with a digital cable, I can switch between the cable and no cable. So, the sound of a cable can be determined very good. The digicoupler sounds almost like no cable. Very neutral. I could well imagine, that there is no significantly better spdif cable available.
I think it is very much like Pat said before. You got to try yourself how different length of digital cable sounds in your system.