99$ Digital cable is damn good

I am using it between my music bank and Lyngdorf 2170.

Of course, you can use it between your transport and Dac.

Since I am so happy with the improvement by paying 99$, , I placed an order for series 2 which cost 195$ and I will compare between those two cables.

Elvis Presley sound so natural and nuanced.

Please note I need one more digital cable to connect between Jay’s CDT2 Mk2 and my Dac.

I may keep those two.

Silnote may offer few more digital cables on sale at Audiogon.

You can still get it at 99$ on Silnote site

https://www.mcssl.com/store/silnoteaudio/catalog/product/600215e2fded4096b5fb4560df57668f

He give 14 day’s return,

But it is more likely you will keep it.

@facten

You must be happy with Silnote digital cables.

I will get more of them on Wednesday.

I am curious how much 200$ cable will be better than 100$ one in my system?

I had just got Blackcat SilverStar BNC digital cable in Korea.


The Korean distributor recommended digi75 or Tron Model to me but they are too expensive (750$ and 2000$ for 1 m length each).

I will report the comparison between Blackcat SilverStar and Silnote Morpheus Reference II digital cables after 3 weeks.

It is up to date version Mk ii.

I had interesting conversation with Korea distributor.

He claimed that upper model provide more musical sound but Silverstar could be more honest.

But I can not test it unless I am back to my listening room in US.

I will give enough burn in time to Blackcat cable.

Silnote digital cable sounded good as new but had improved a little bit more with burn in.

Another interesting conversation with distributor about Korean audio market.

MSB top DAC which cost 80K $ sell well in Korea.

Also CH Precision Dac is also popular in Korea, but the distributor himself does not like the sound from CH Precision feeling that it is somewhat artificially sculptured.

There is serious division of opinion about Total DAC in Korea.

Some people like it’s analogue sound, but other people are of the opinion is that it lacks details.


DCS is also selling well in Korea.

The distributor also sell Mytek Digital products which I had listened to his listening room using Scansonic speakers.

http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/mytek

http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/scansonic



I found the combination sound fine but falling little bit short of top end category.

It was my first occasion to listen to Mytek Digital and Scansonic speakers.


But they are reasonably good system without exorbitant price.

I like his show room treated with Artnovion acoustic product.


http://chessaudio.co.kr/xe/artnovion_list

I may try them in the future in my listening room.



He also mentioned that manufacturing facility of Blackcat moved from Japan to Georgia recently.

I had got Blackecat cables with BNC termination but with two adapters to RCA.

So I have freedom to try to compare between BNC and RCA.

Jay's cdt2 mk2 has both BNC and RCA outputs.

But I do not have BNC input to Lyngdorf 2170.

I had been using Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 for 8 weeks.

It showed lot of details but etched out of box.

After 8 weeks, it got much better.

But after comparing with 200$ Silnote Morpheus II digital cables, they are close but I prefer latter with more organic sound.

The better performance came from Zenwave D4 digital cable (500$) which give much more refined and nuanced details.

Upper model of Blackcat digital cable may perform better but I do not want to try out them with long burn in time and high price.

Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 is not very bad but just ordinary Joe for the price.

I would rather recommend either 200$ Silnote Morpheus II digital cable or Zenwave D4 digital cable depending on your budget.

Choice of cable is dependent on system and personal taste.

So my judgement can not be final.

But I found nothing special with Blackcat Silverstar Mk2 digital cable.

@ mikirob

Jay’s CDT2 is quite nice for the price.

If you use three rollerblocks under it, then it is much better

http://www.symposiumusa.com/rollerblocks.html