Irgendwan I asked a friend if he a "buyer" knew of my boxes, but he said before I sell my boxes, I should first times exclude all other error - ie the usual suspects: the cable connections and plugs.
There was, there was not much: "Kimber 4PR" Laustsprecherkabel - known as rather round in sound, with "Nakamichi Banana" - double bolted and bombig tight fit.
Joah, ... and this "deleyCON HQ" Toslink cable with over 100 5-star reviews. DIGITAL GOES OR DOES NOT - IN BETWEEN THERE'S NOTHING. So I thought until then.
The first question was to be:
"How much have you spent on it?"
And my answer:
"2 Euro 50 with Porto." (Got it from memory King ordered)
The response was an amused grin and about this text:
"Oookaaaaay which is then schonmal certainly not a true fiber optic cable which is made of plastic, and probably only cut off, but not polished and it does not sit very straight in the socket -... Hmmm, I think that you messed up the sound ... or the error correction in the receiver, which must interpolate too many mistakes, and a signal passes in this way, which then only can still be the best possible approximation to the original signal, but no longer the original signal in all its subtleties.
Sounds complicated, deshab here another explanation, which I later found with unbelievers "control googling":
"Also, digital cable can affect the sound.
Often there is this to hear the response: "how is this going on, seeing that only bits pure zeros and ones, transmitted?" Well, physically no zeros and ones are newly transferred. The ones and zeros are the content that is transferred, but the information carrier is as in the conventional audio signal is a modulated voltage. In concrete terms, it is provided a square-wave signal, the encoded digital content, but nevertheless is an analog signal. And accordingly may affect the accuracy, be represented by the rising and falling edges of the square wave signal and received by the other side, the transmission characteristics of the cable. "
That sounds plausible, right?
In any case, the advice of my friend:
Just try it once with a real fiber optic cable from a manufacturer that is known. "
On "[...]" (sorry, but Amazon has cleared out the web page address There is a forum on HiFi matters;.) ... Anyway, I was there, "the cheapest of Acoustic Research" recommended as the head was the same as the more expensive, and only externally it had just reduced to the bare minimum.
All right then. Although I had never heard of this brand, but, well ... you have to trust ANYONE yes. And otherwise: As they say ?:
"Learning by doing."
So I ordered it:
Acoustic Research Entertainment - optical digital cable 3,60 m
For discreet 16,98 Euro directly from Amazon, expensive, but if the cable but "A handle in the toilet," would have been fact, then I would have had 30 days return policy. So zero risk for my "home cable test" ;-)
And now shot with the chatter, I can make it real short:
The expensive fiber optic cable sounds much, much better !!!!!
On my system are the worlds:
With the cheap cable the sound is hard and flat, and everything "sticks" somehow in the pits - annoys me (e) the vastly.
With the expensive cable the sound is accurate, full, and extremely nice to listen. The bass has just the right "Punch", the heights are no longer hard and "britzelig", but fine and "silky". Also the sound is no longer "sticks" to the boxes, but everything "is in the room" - I LOVE IT !!!!!
More I can not say, except that I am totally happy that it was not my boxing now. That would become expensive.
Maybe you can even justify giving the "deleyCON HQ" cable 5 stars because it's quite a gift in Verglaich, or because it is "watching movies" when sound-wise not mscht this difference? But I would really recommend it to anyone, "listening" for the stands in the foreground.
My conclusion: 2 stars.
PS: For "gold plated connectors"
Basically, said:
SOUND considered technically it is utterly pointless, over the short end of an optical fiber, which itself is made of plastic or fiberglass, ensuring no electrical conductivity has to push a small metal sleeve which is gold-plated.
However MECHANICAL considered COULD gilding - viewed with good will - not least be utterly pointless, namely when the metal sleeve, a mechanically stable connection to the (here) plastic connector allows in, as for example a plastic. Theoretically would gilding - almost like galvanizing the Car Exhaust - form a thin protective layer, and in this way the small metal sleeve then bring a longer body Waldensian maintenance.
As much, much more likely, it seems to me, however, that the "partly gilded plastic plugs" just valent APPEARANCE should, as "only" a simple "full plastic connector".
An excessive sound quality plus or minus exists in the whole, however, just as an electric ;-)
