@shadorne seems you have really never listened to a digital rig that can resolve the differences in cables. The reality is actually that cables are in some cases the limiting factor in current top end digital reproduction.
My current digital rig is a DCS Vivaldi stack. I was surprised to discover that increasing the clock frequency (from 44.1 to 88.2 or 176.4) far from making it sound better, made it sound worse -- despite the fact that the upsampler and DAC were operating at these higher frequencies (i.e. if I clock them at 44.1 they need to increase the clock frequency in each component). Surely it would be better to generate that higher f clock once only?
Turns out not because even with the current best available BNC cables (Transparent Ref XL) the timing and jitter errors introduced in transmitting higher frequency clocks are audible, hence better to stick with a stable shared 44.1 and go from there.
My current digital rig is a DCS Vivaldi stack. I was surprised to discover that increasing the clock frequency (from 44.1 to 88.2 or 176.4) far from making it sound better, made it sound worse -- despite the fact that the upsampler and DAC were operating at these higher frequencies (i.e. if I clock them at 44.1 they need to increase the clock frequency in each component). Surely it would be better to generate that higher f clock once only?
Turns out not because even with the current best available BNC cables (Transparent Ref XL) the timing and jitter errors introduced in transmitting higher frequency clocks are audible, hence better to stick with a stable shared 44.1 and go from there.