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In Reply to: Need digital IC recommendations posted by bartc on November 27, 2006 at 09:45:13:
bartc,
I don't know if 69 dollars is too much for you to spend right now but I don't think that you can do better than Signal Cable's silver resolution digital IC. The Signal Cable IC is the best sounding to me, even better than the Pure Note digital IC that I purchased for 200 bucks on sale. I have also used the ones from Blue Jeans Cables, they have the true 75 ohm connector and/or BNC, but they are not as good as the Signal Cable.
I wouldn't agonize over the whole "true 75 ohm" issue, nor BNC connectors because the S/Pdif path is hardly ever built as a true 75 ohm transmission line in practice (even though the design hopes to emulate it). Just open up your DAC and transport and tell me if you see a 75 ohm line on a circuit board surrounded by ground on both sides (and via holes), and then neatly butted up to a 75 ohm feedthru reaching to the outside world. I have not encountered this in a consumer player ( or DAC) yet, but it is standard practice in the microwave industry. Such is the way of consumer audio, i.e., a lack of a real standard. Perhaps that's why there is so much guesswork, speculation, and confusion.Anyway if you can swing the 69 bucks for a 2 foot length of Signal Cable I think you will be happy with it for a long time.
Good luck!
QE
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- Re: Need digital IC recommendations - Quiet Earth 21:51:01 11/29/06 (1)
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