may i know your favore audio cable to connect your dac to you amply? avoid please copper 99.9 cables

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10 hours ago, gmgraves said:

I spent three years in the Lockheed Missile and Space Company's "Polaris/Poseidon cable laboratory". I have measured, stressed, destroyed, tested, and characterized every kind of cable and connector and dielectric and insulator known to science, and I think I have a pretty good understand of how cable works, what it's strengths and weaknesses are, and what it can and cannot do at every frequency from DC to daylight! I

 

George, did you test various levels of EMI surrounding the components? My impression given my own tests, is that audible differences between cables are largely due to shielding etc ie noise, but haven’t spent the time you have investigating this (I just use balanced XLR and don’t worry  

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3 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

I don't see anything unusual about the Belden 8402 mic cable - I bet it is well made and will sound as good as all the others...

 

 

Belden is great about making different cables for different applications. 

 

For example, having the proper impedance matching is important for digital but much much less so for audio 0-50 kHz applications. Think of impedance as frequency dependent resistance. At DC the cable resistance should be much less than say 50 ohm, so the impedance doesn’t come into play at low frequencies. Similarly speaker cables should be thick — also with low resistance.

3 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

 

 

BTW< was looking at a Benchmark white paper the other day and they WERE able to measure distortion at speaker cable connections - they like and sell cables with Neutrik connectors

 

Certainly. Neutrik XLR connectors are very high quality — look at the prices though! Downright dirt cheap if we are talking about “audiophile” cables. The connectors indeed may get be the most important part of the cable ?

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16 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

"Downright dirt cheap"

 

- so they're no good, eh?

https://m.markertek.com/product/nc3mxx/neutrik-nc3mxx-3-pin-male-xlr-cable-connector-nickel-silver#ath

 

https://m.markertek.com/product/nc3fm-xlr-6/neutrik-unisex-xlr-microphone-cable-6ft?NC3FM-XLR-6#ath

 

or if that’s too expensive something like : Canare L-4E6S Microphone Cable | XLR-M to XLR-F | Neutrik Gold | 4 Feet | 4 Ft. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01HHIV7EA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZdssAbKMQTHBC

 

These are the types of cables I use for my own “expensive” equipment?