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In Reply to: RE: SPDIF Recommendations posted by Chris K. on April 24, 2020 at 09:54:28
Oyaide DR-510 silver digital cable. It features a massive 18 AWG solid core pure silver center conductor, so it does not sound bright nor whitened. Actually somewhat on the warm side of neutral, with excellent detail, a strong bottom end, and very musical. A fine choice for the timbre of acoustic piano with complex harmonics, IME. Furthermore, the Oyaide SLSC rca connector features a hollow pure silver center pin, so the center conductor involves pure silver from tip to tip. Along with the classic Illuminati D60 solid core pure silver digital cable, the Oyaide DR-510 is my all time favorite 75 Ohm digital cable, and found that it mates well with any digital front end I've tried it with.
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I have been looking a new SPDIF, went from a MicroRendu to Allo Digione, USB to SPDIF. Had an old Zu Ash lying around that is decent but colored. Read this post and thought what the hell.
Ordered DR-510 off Ebay, $179, delivered. In my cable world great price, came from Japan in 5 days. Things from either coast take longer to get to the Midwest. Have been burning it in and have about 180 hrs on it.
Right out of the box, it was a detail beast, thick sounding and congested. I have never burned a cable in that has been so all over the place, to unlistenable to glimpses of greatness. This is my first all silver cable. I gravitate towards litz copper coated in silver for interconnects.
The frequency extension on both ends is impressive, it delves into bight and boomy, then pulls back. As I have it running all the time, when I get in the morning, I take its temperature and see where it is at, different every day, so far. Ditto when I get home from work, really crazy.
It is settling in ever so slightly. The soundstage is the widest I have heard through my Maggies, it is lacking little depth still. Imaging and focus within the soundstage has improved exponentially. Will still get a little thick at times, but not what it was. Right now it needs improvement in the Low Mids to Upper bass. Big gap, vocals lack chestyness, saxs' are still thin. It has improved, but a ways to go.
I am asking you to confirm my suspicions that this a 400-600 hr burn-in? If it fills in the lower mid-band, it is definitely a keeper. Just based on the improvements I am hearing.
Thanks
Mark
FYI, front end the sonicTransporter i5 CDR (w/CD Ripper), Allo Digione running roon, Schiit Yggy 2 DAC, Simaudio intergraded 340i DXP2, Ps Audio P5 PowerPlant into Maggie MG-12's.
Any updates on your impressions of this cable?
Silver with a Teflon dielectric tends to take a long time to burn-in. The Oyaide DR-510 digital cable transmitting a delicate S/PDIF signal tends to require many hours of burn-in before it settles into a system.
Additionally, the deficits you describe might be addressed by a power cord swap, since like a line-level interconnect cable, the sonic signature of a digital cable works in tandem with the sonic signature of the power cord that feeds a particular digital source component. Try another power cord in your collection to see if matters might improve in some manner.
Thank you for the response
The power cords a good place to start.
I'm gonna let it run in for another week or so before I make any changes.
I feel it's a great cable that just needs to be flushed out a little more.
Try not to move too many variables at once.
Thanks again
Thank you for the response
The power cords a good place to start.
I'm gonna let it run in for another week or so before I make any changes.
I feel it's a great cable that just needs to be flushed out a little more.
Try not to move too many variables at once.
Thanks again
nt
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