Originally Posted by Truman
Friends,

Has anyone experimented with upgraded digital cables between the HD621 and the 861 or G68? I am curious to know whether anyone has found that the better digital cables improve sound quality. If so, I am curious to know whether people used high-quality cables for all three outputs, or emphasized just the L/R and perhaps the C/SW channels.

Thanks for any responses.



Truman I've always been told that digital interconnects are far less important an issue then analog speaker cables. Seems to make sense, dig cable is passing 1s & 0s whereby analog speaker cables have to carry and translate more than a digital stream.

Obviously this is a non-technical over simplified answer. I think your dollars are better spent elsewhere in the audio chain. So you can purchase "nice" cables but should not need to buy into the hype of paying huge or more for a digital cable. I'm pretty sure Meridian approach bears this out. Being the Digital leaders well ahead of the competition with digital they are not over spending or over engineering their digital interconnects. Clearly they would not build some of the finest digital equipment on the market and supply a "lesser" digital interconnect, have you seen the blue interconnects, nothing special smile

Save your money


Best,

Jay




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