At first. Until I ran it direct from the DAC. Then through the switch no change what so ever. The cables are well worth the price. Besides they are cheap compared to some of the other numbers I was seeingAh nice, same one I posted.Considering your cables are expensive was there any concern running the signal through a switcher which may or may not have the same quality internals?
Never mind the output of the Xbox is crap. There is no generation loss when you use opticial
THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO SAY NEXT, THEN I DIRECTLY PUT THAT OPTICAL TO MY YGGDRASIL, THE RESULT IS WAYYYYYY BETTER. NOW I THINK IT IOS LIMITED BY MY AMAZON BASICS CRAP CABLE. IF I SECIDE TO GTET A AUDIOQUEST, IT WILL BE VERY VERY GOOD.
Audioquest cables are BIG $$$. I 100% love the cables I posted the link to the sound rounded out the bottom end got fatter
Because may be you did not burn the cable. Good cables sound fat at the beginning and becomes super smooth with time.
The cables were for sure burnt it. The new ones are a heavier gauge way better connectors Believe me I was one of those guys who said cables are cables. Then I changed them out
right. Everything is interchangable.
Just in case anyone finds this thread while wondering about Y-splitters, I just tried that experiment myself. I have a vintage Lector Digicode Tube dac which sounds spectacular with its balanced XLR out on both my Stax 353X and my Taurus MkII. I didn't want to have to keep switching cables so I got a pair of Y-splitters from Blue Jeans Cable. I've been happy with everything I've gotten from them and their service is stellar. Bottom line is no matter how I arranged the wiring (whether going straight from dac>splitter>amp or dac>splitter>XLR cables>amp) whether both amps were even connected or powered on, the difference in sound quality with the y-splitter in play was substantial. I'm not talking some subtle shift in soundstage. I'm talking a change from exquisite to well, bad enough to make me think there was something wrong with my Stax (thank goodness the sound quality came right back when I removed the splitter). I emailed Blue Jeans and explained that I didn't think there was anything "wrong" with their splitters. They just weren't meant to do what I was trying to do. They agreed and offered a full refund (there's that stellar service again) and even pointed me in the direction of a good switch, so that will be my next experiment.
Interesting. A few weeks after getting my Yggy2 and Mjolnir2 I bought a pair of XLR Y-splitter cables to send Yggy2's balanced output to both Mjolnir2 and my Yamaha A-S3000. I haven't done repeated A/B tests, but I didn't notice any degradation in SQ when I installed the splitter cables so have had no reason to want to remove them. You have now however planted the seed in my brain.... damn you!....
