@ianrmack Your DH Labs is probably a fine cable. Can’t recall if elsewhere you mentioned you’re using an aftermarket power cable on your Node or not but if not that will make a nice improvement. I’m running a Vault 2 with an RME ADI 2 fs DAC and I upgraded the stock power supply on the RME which improved things more than cables. If your Chord uses a switched power supply you might want to look into upgrading that as well.
As mentioned you can only run out of your Node Coax or Toslink to your DAC. Coax/SPDIF is the way to go. The USB is for storage devices.
As mentioned you can only run out of your Node Coax or Toslink to your DAC. Coax/SPDIF is the way to go. The USB is for storage devices.