I was told the other day by a mastering engineer in LA that spending the
money
for a Kimber or other similarly expensive spdif cable would make a significant
and audible improvement over a more modestly priced cable such as Canare. I'm
talking about a fairly short cable run, maybe 15' over which mixes would be
transferred from one machine to another. BRBR


Any competently constructed cable should be fine. You're moving data from
machine to machine, I'm assuming from storage device to storage device.
Sometimes digital jitter can affect what you hear, but that's pretty much only
the case with D/A converters that recover the clock from the signal on the
SPDIF input.

15' is rather long, but a decent quality coax of the proper impedance should be
fine. It doesn't matter what metal the cable is made of, copper is fine. Just
look for something of reasonable quality that is intended to be an SPDIF cable.
75 ohm video cable works fine too.

If you want to be sure, you can compare the data in the file after transfering
it.

Coax is generally thought of as better than optical TOS-Link. But either can
get the job done.


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