In most situations, you can interchange an "analogue" interconnect for a "digital" cable without major problems. Having said that, one may run into issues with increased jitter, poorer sound, RFI, the inability of the transport to synchronize with the DAC ( won't go into "lock" mode ), etc... Most of this has to do with shielding ( or lack of it ), signal leakage, digital reflections i.e. "VSWR", etc....
If you've tried a specific cable, it works between the transport and DAC and you like the results, it doesn't matter whether the cable was marketed as "digital" or "analogue". It's simply passing signal and the mating circuitry is stable enough to deal with it. Sean
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PS... the standard for a "digital" RCA cable is based on an appr 75 ohm figure. Balanced / XLR is based on an appr 110 ohm standard from what i can recall. Analogue based RCA's can be anywhere from 50 - 100 ohms or so.
If you've tried a specific cable, it works between the transport and DAC and you like the results, it doesn't matter whether the cable was marketed as "digital" or "analogue". It's simply passing signal and the mating circuitry is stable enough to deal with it. Sean
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PS... the standard for a "digital" RCA cable is based on an appr 75 ohm figure. Balanced / XLR is based on an appr 110 ohm standard from what i can recall. Analogue based RCA's can be anywhere from 50 - 100 ohms or so.