warm digital cable

i would think that parts, e.g., dieelectric, wire type, geometry, connectors, etc., should affect digital as well as analog.

i believe i could ascertain the difference between a digital cable made of silver and one made of copper.

MT,

You might hear a difference between two cables in any particular system but as Al points out, the results would likely not be reproducable consistently from system to system due to different jitter factors. So it does not seem likely that one could consistently attribute a particular sound with a particular digital cable.

My DAC reclocks things so jitter seems to be a non issue, and I have to say (really...I have to say it) that among all the cable changes and upgrades over the years, the S/PDIF upgrade from a basic VDMxr to the beautifully made Audioquest silver VDM 5 has made the least obvious improvement. Still, it SEEMS better...according to advertising spiel it should be better...and that's enough for me! Nobody wants to sit there listening to beautiful music thinking their digital cable might not be letting 100% of the beauty through. Still, bad digital recordings still sound bad, but I can listen the LP instead in some cases so that's okay.

When I ugraded from a generic digital coax cable to a K-Works Goldenheart digital cable, to my surprise, I noticed improvments in many areas, timbre, soundstage, noise floor, and more, but the overall frequency balance of my digital playback chain was not noticeably affected. So I would agree with Mapman.

I have tried a lot of digital cables, nordost, audio quest Tara labs, kimber monster.

The best warm cable I tried is a monster cable video reference rca cable, The rest of monster products are crap but their digital cables are some of the best! All video and digital cables are 75 ohm. So you can use either. this opens a lot of opportunities since people are selling obsolete RCA video cables for virtually nothing. The Kimber VS 75 is the best I have ever heard and the monster is just a touch warmer. Also cal audio labs is afantastic dac stereo phile said you had to buy a 4K levinson dac to better it you can get one on audiogon for 250 - 350 unbelivable value!