Originally Posted by Phasenoise
Over the years I've used a few cabled, Transparent, Van Den Hul, Nordost, but end then was using some Van Den Hul The Thunderline balanced for AES/EBU, switched over to using some Van Den Hul The Second, which at the time was using phonos as I liked the sound more, this Feb I sent them back to Van Den Hul and had them rewired for AES/EBU and to be honest I've never been happier, so much better in every way than using them in phono, also can say the same for all the cables, The Transparent stuff was also very good over the phono 75 ohm versions.

That just goes to prove that AES/EBU can be sent over any old cable (see 'Anybody know why Meridian chose SPDIF (unbalanced) over AES/EBU (balanced)?' thread)!

You seem to have used a balanced analogue cable for unbalanced digital, no wonder it sounds better now, it was probably way off the 75 ohm requirement for coax SPDIF, but fine for AES/EBU.

Who sold you the original cable for digital use?

Steve.