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The best digital IC, period.

I've spent a great deal of time, too much really, to find the best IC between my transport to my DAC. After listening to six cables from some big names and big $$ as well as some not so well names for small $$. The winner came out to be a HAVE/CANARE $25 IC. With this cable there is no eye candy at all, ZED, but it's combination of GEPCO International, VSD2001 high definition 75ohm serial series digital coax, and CANARE true 75ohm RCA terminations, simply killed all of the esoteric cables with a few others coming in very very close, but the HAVE/CANARE $25, 3' was just beyond belief. Now I know that people feel strongly to use at least 1.5M in length for a DIC, but with this company I tried cables at length of 12" to 1.5M, i tried them all and the best of the buch was their standard 3' cable, defying the math. Hey, for 25$?
rpg
adamlau
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Damn this thread...Might have to pick up a P!!! R-v3 DIGITAL MASTER to compare to a cryo treated Oyaide DR-510...
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ozzy
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Rpg, Yes I need 2 meter, it's for my Squeezebox Touch. I kind of dropped the idea based on your comparison comments.

I own a Kimber Illuminati D60 digital cable and I have compared that cable to a Morrow D4 cable. The Morrow sounds way better in everything that matters.
Its funny, you would think that digital cables would all sound the same, or at least be close, but these are NOT.

I still may order a 2 meter Have/Canare just to compare.
You never know how they may react in my system and the price for them is cheap.
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ozzy
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Rpg, I just ordered a 6 footer to try.
rpg OP
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Ozzy, let us know what you think after a listen. My 6' pair that I tried sounded dark and a little slow compared to my 3' cable, but the math suggests 1.5M minimum, so it will be very interesting to hear back from you! Happy listening!
Rpg
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ozzy
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Rpg, Well I recieved the 6 footers today.
Cold and out of the bag and straight into my Squeeze Box Touch... it doesn't sound too bad. In fact is sounds very good. Not dark or slow. Very lively sounding with good soundstaging and frequency extremes. Really, everything I want in a digital cable.
Comparing it to the Morrow D4 with silver Eichman RCA's it is really quite close. It seems to have a sharper leading edge but perhaps more playing time will smooth that out. But right now, it seems like quite a bargain.

My Morrow Dig4 is better in my system than the Kimber Illuminati D-60 was so if this cable can play with those, save your money and buy the HaveFlex Dig SPDIF.
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