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Spdif cable is just wire. You can use cooked spaghetti or a clothes hanger. Yes good. Believe that but please read no further. There may be smoke coming from your ears and you may start displaying Herbert Lom-like tics.
For the past few weeks, my wife and even the gardener just shook their heads and walked on by. All they saw of me was my legs sticking, Keystone cops like, out of some container. I was looking for something and not finding it. This morning I found it: With the AES 3 cable, I was going to send away. Was it Mike showing his approval? Anyway, what I was looking for was a piece of digital cable he made for me. Towards the end of his life, Mike no longer wanted to make a cable for people. But his fascination with cable remains and as ever I remained the guinea pig. He made me 1.5m of digital cable (Was it generation 6 or 7 or 8?) And... it didn't work. I no longer remember if it was AES or Spdif but it didn't work. Not bad sounding it didn't work at all. It wouldn't pass the signal despite measuring well. Hoping he wouldn't see ( he never did but knowing him, he knew), I cut the cable in half and soldered very expensive Danish plugs to it. It was the best interconnect I ever heard. But it became too short to where the Brinkmann was going, so I packed it away.
Anyway, I found it and it is now half length so will work as SPDIF. Oh, it worked. At 44.1K, yes but knock it to 192 and Nada. Stutter,bleat,nothing. Have I, after his death, discovered the secret of Genesis cables? Was his insistence and fixation on the number of turns a way of limiting bandwidth and thus keeping noise out of analog signals?
I never thought I'd revisit Spdif again. But with the Hydra hub, I had to. I used a length of Cardas Lightning and it was good. Then I remembered: How I listened to everything, homemade and bought. Poor Croak sent me Cardas, this that, Blues and Greens, Grays and Blacks. What were they all? He sent me Tellurium, the darkest, yecchest thing in my system and I settled on an Audioquest Cinema silver digital cable. But it had a brightness, a glare and I moved away to the Cardas, There was even vdHul First digital that is really not for me. Mike made me his that wouldn't work. In the end, purely by accident, I tried the second generation(?) Genesis. The one with the cheapo plugs that Mike swore by. I razzled him countless times about it and he stuck by it. And guess what-I still sounded best of all plugs on his cables. Anyway, the one that had the wood bullets turned by Johann Viljoen and gold writing by his friend at Number Plates and Signs.
I found that Genesis Proton cable in that box too. Swapped it out and Wow! Then as now. All Spdifs sound the same. Right? Yeah, right.
For the past few weeks, my wife and even the gardener just shook their heads and walked on by. All they saw of me was my legs sticking, Keystone cops like, out of some container. I was looking for something and not finding it. This morning I found it: With the AES 3 cable, I was going to send away. Was it Mike showing his approval? Anyway, what I was looking for was a piece of digital cable he made for me. Towards the end of his life, Mike no longer wanted to make a cable for people. But his fascination with cable remains and as ever I remained the guinea pig. He made me 1.5m of digital cable (Was it generation 6 or 7 or 8?) And... it didn't work. I no longer remember if it was AES or Spdif but it didn't work. Not bad sounding it didn't work at all. It wouldn't pass the signal despite measuring well. Hoping he wouldn't see ( he never did but knowing him, he knew), I cut the cable in half and soldered very expensive Danish plugs to it. It was the best interconnect I ever heard. But it became too short to where the Brinkmann was going, so I packed it away.
Anyway, I found it and it is now half length so will work as SPDIF. Oh, it worked. At 44.1K, yes but knock it to 192 and Nada. Stutter,bleat,nothing. Have I, after his death, discovered the secret of Genesis cables? Was his insistence and fixation on the number of turns a way of limiting bandwidth and thus keeping noise out of analog signals?
I never thought I'd revisit Spdif again. But with the Hydra hub, I had to. I used a length of Cardas Lightning and it was good. Then I remembered: How I listened to everything, homemade and bought. Poor Croak sent me Cardas, this that, Blues and Greens, Grays and Blacks. What were they all? He sent me Tellurium, the darkest, yecchest thing in my system and I settled on an Audioquest Cinema silver digital cable. But it had a brightness, a glare and I moved away to the Cardas, There was even vdHul First digital that is really not for me. Mike made me his that wouldn't work. In the end, purely by accident, I tried the second generation(?) Genesis. The one with the cheapo plugs that Mike swore by. I razzled him countless times about it and he stuck by it. And guess what-I still sounded best of all plugs on his cables. Anyway, the one that had the wood bullets turned by Johann Viljoen and gold writing by his friend at Number Plates and Signs.
I found that Genesis Proton cable in that box too. Swapped it out and Wow! Then as now. All Spdifs sound the same. Right? Yeah, right.
