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Most Important, Unloved Cable...

Ethernet. I used to say the power cord was the most unloved, but important cable. Now, I update that assessment to the Ethernet cable. Review work forthcoming. 

I can't wait to invite my newer friend who is an engineer who was involved with the construction of Fermilab, the National Accelerator Lab, to hear this! Previously he was an overt mocker; no longer. He decided to try comparing cables and had his mind changed. That's not uncommon, as many of you former skeptics know. :)

I had my biggest doubts about the Ethernet cable. But, I was wrong - SO wrong! I'm so happy I made the decision years ago that I would try things rather than simply flip a coin mentally and decide without experience. It has made all the difference in quality of systems and my enjoyment of them. Reminder; I settled the matter of efficacy of cables years before becoming a reviewer and with my own money, so my enthusiasm for them does not spring from reviewing. Reviewing has allowed me to more fully explore their potential.  

I find fascinating the cognitive dissonance that exists between the skeptical mind in regard to cables and the real world results which can be obtained with them. I'm still shaking my head at this result... profoundly unexpected results way beyond expectation. Anyone who would need an ABX for this should exit the hobby and take up gun shooting, because your hearing would be for crap.  
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shadorne
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@jinjuku 

A place to start is forums where those with certain DACs claim a big difference with a reclocker or audio USB bridge.

I would have expected at least one person here to be able to accept your challenge but alas nobody is confident enough of their ears or what they think they heard.

I have read that the Holospring DAC sounds much better with a Singxer SU 1 

I have heard only very subtle differences on other systems / certainly too small to pick reliably in a blind test. I put it down to better jitter rejection which can be very subtle to hear.

I was totally unable to hear a difference on any of the digital inputs on my DAC (USB, optical, coax) with or without an audio bridge (Singxer SU 1). 
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geoffkait
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shadorne wrote,

"I was totally unable to hear any differences on any of the digital inputs on my DAC (USB, optical, coax) with or without an audio bridge (Singxer SU 1)."

You don't say? 😄
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jinjuku
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A place to start is forums where those with certain DACs claim a big difference with a reclocker or audio USB bridge.

Why would I need to do that. There are three posters here that have answers for everything.
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shadorne
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@geoffkait 

Just a heads up you misquoted me. 

I said "Some" not "All"
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geoffkait
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shadorne

@geoffkait

Just a heads up you misquoted me.

I said "Some" not "All"

Whatever. You cannot prove it, in any case, either some or all are explained by placebos. You also claimed many of the rest of the positive results were probably equipment issues, which you can’t prove, either. It’s just the usual ridiculous crap naysayers come up with to try to save face. One assumes you would agree, however, that the remaining positive results, subtracting the ones you claim are placebos and the ones you claim are equipment issues, are real positive results. Well, now we’re getting somewhere! 😄
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