On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 06:34:06 +1300, Geoff Wood wrote:

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On 3 Jan 2005 16:39:24 -0500, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

It's EASY to make cables that make the music sound worse.

Actually, that's *extremely* difficult - and nigh on impossible with
digital.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

I just tried it - I used a coathanger (2 actually) on a 3ft spdif
connection. Trimmed the output files to the same sample at each each end,
and the results were bit-perfect when compared to the conventional cable
one.

I don't have enough spare time to try it with wet string....

But *everyone* knows that if you use an extremely expensive cable, the
bits will be golden and the music will of course sound better.

You can save a trip to the store and get the same effect by burning a few
hundred dollar bills and letting the fumes waft over the cables.