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Where to buy Canare DigiFlex Gold

post #1 of 6
8/31/08 at 1:34am
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In the April, 2008 issue of Stereophile, one of their recommended digital interconnects was the Canare Digiflex Gold model RCAPOO3F, but I couldn't seem to find a place that sell them. Does any one know where I could get one?
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post #2 of 6
8/31/08 at 1:56am
http://www.markertek.com/Product.asp...&search=0&off=

*edit* link was bad, sorry
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post #3 of 6
8/31/08 at 2:14pm
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Originally Posted by kaldaim View Post
Thank you for the link. Do you know if they are terminated by Canare? Are they cold-welded (i.e., crimped and without use of solder?)

How do these compare with the Blue Jeans coaxial? They also use the Canare RCA connectors, but with a Belden 1694A cable (18 AWG). I have the Blue Jean coax, so if they are similar I wouldn't bother "upgrading."
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post #4 of 6
9/3/08 at 12:26am
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Nevermind, I emailed the distributor Tecnec and they said the cable is Canare L-4CFB and the crimp connector is the RCAP-C4F. The cable is 21 AWG compared to the 18 AWG Blue Jean Belden 1694A. Blue Jeans also uses the RCAP-C53. I think I will just keep the Blue Jeans 1694A. Probably very little difference anyways.
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post #5 of 6
11/8/11 at 11:44am

Sorry to raise an old thread, but I wanted to share my experience with this cable, which I bought for about €35,- with ferrite clamps.

Last week I decided to replace the Oyaide 510  use as a digital interconnect for the Canare Digiflex gold with 2 ferrite clamps I had lying around.

The difference was surprising; first that there was a difference anyway between digital cables, and second, that the Digiflex at 1/5 of the price was clearly better then the Oyaide.

The Oyaide was a little bit too smooth in my system; the Digiflex seems to add more treble, giving a much more spatial and more upfront sound stage that was a good thing in my set (see sign).

Mind you, with my former DAC (Audio-GD Ref5DSP) I preferred the Oyaide, so my preference is system dependent.

It keeps on amazing me there sometimes is a clear audible difference between digital cables, that manifest itself as a significant sound stage size difference in my speaker based set.

I also tried the ferrite beads on the Oyaide but that didn't seem to make any difference; on the Digiflex they seemed to tame the treble in a good way, but I didn't really experiment in that direction.


Edited by dura - 11/15/11 at 2:44pm
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post #6 of 6
11/8/11 at 8:16pm
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No need to apologize.  It's always good to know others' experiences.  I forgot that started this threat.  I found Blue Jean Belden 1694A was really good and kept it for a while.  Then the upgraditis bug came in and I upgraded to the Black Cat Veloce ($123).  I found that the Veloce gave it more treble and had better transparency.  Now that I have the Ayre QB-9 USB DAC I no longer needed a coax cable.  The Blue Jean Belden 1694A went to my dad's CD player, and the Veloce is somewhere in my closet. 

 

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Originally Posted by dura View Post

Sorry to raise an old thread, but I wanted to share my experience with this cable, which I bought for about €35,- with ferrite clamps.

Last week I decided to replace the Oyaide 510  use as a digital interconnect for the Canare Digiflex gold with 2 ferrite clamps I had lying around.

The difference was surprising; first that there was a difference anyway between digital cables, and second, that the Digiflex at 1/5 of the price was clearly better then the Oyaide.

The Oyaide was a little bit too smooth in my system; the Digiflex seems to add more treble, giving a much more spatial and more upfront sound stage that was a good thing in my set (see sign).

Mind you, with my former DAC (Audio-GD Ref5DSP) I preferred the Oyaide, so my preference is system dependent.

It keeps on amazing me there sometimes is a clear audible difference between digital cables, that manifest itself as a significant sound stage size difference in my speaker based set.

I also tried the ferrite beads on the Oyaide but that didn't seem to make any difference; on the Digiflex they seemed to tame the treble in a good way, but I didn't really experiment in that direction.



 

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