Unlike rodman, I use a .5m Kimber Orchid from my Wadia 8 transport to a McIntosh MDA 1000 dac and it sounds fabulous. FWIW, I posed the question of cable length to Kimber. Their response was, it didn't matter. Well everyone hears what they hear I guess. I've done numerous digital cable comparisons ( coax. bnc, toslink), and in the end I like you prefer aes/ebu with the Orchid being the one Iike best. I'm good forever now.
Denman
Denman