I find coax to sound faster and more open than optical, but I have to admit my own prejudices of optical , I have herd it sound very good with all glass cable.
But I choose coax every time.
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I find coax to sound faster and more open than optical, but I have to admit my own prejudices of optical , I have herd it sound very good with all glass cable.
But I choose coax every time.
Yep, if you want to hear jitter, put a tight bend in an optical cable, it sounds like a FM radio station at the point of loosing signal, fffft,fffft,fffft! It's a very fast fall out repeated rapidly. I once bent a cheap monster optical in half to see if it really mattered. IT DID,A LOT!
There is a difference between hearing clearly audible jitter distortion effects, and the more subtle ones. Sometimes when people upgrade their CDPs with new clocks they can find it a bit ‘sharp’ and ‘clinical’, preferring the previous higher jitter clock.
Purely CABLE talking on my simple analogue phono set-up I would say it's logically where it passes first in the chain; the tonearm cables. Then IMHO it should be the speaker's cables. But all in between if there's more as well...
I have a link to the research on my home pc, I'll stick it up when I get home (if I remember).
The short answer is you need a lot for it to be audible. No CD player will have audible jitter so whatever the reason(s) people hear differences after installing after market clocks in their players a reduction in audible jitter won't be one of them. The very best professional RTR machines will have jitter levels an order of magnitude above the most basic of cd players, and vinyl even more. But oddly it's only cd players where it is claimed to have any effect on the sound.
too short one!
Here's the research:
http://www.ultrahighendreview.com/up..._on_Jitter.pdf