Digital coaxial advice needed


I’m a revived audio nerd so i seek some advice.
I’m looking for inputs for 2 PC’s and one coaxial cable between Nurpime Evo dac and CDT-8 Pro transport.
All advices are appreciated.


rird

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I look for a coaxial cable first hand. To connect the devices.
I have other balanced IC’s, so i am set here. Perhaps i look in to PC’s later, but there are other things first.
I have been looking at rows of cables, but Lessloss seems interesting.
Perhaps a bit expensive

Sorry, PC's = power chords 
Well, what’s reasonable? I was looking at Lessloss C-marc.
https://www.lessloss.com/cmarc-digital-cable-p-226.html
But higher than that i wouldn’t go. Rather a bit cheaper.

However, i just got an answer from Nuprime and they say HDMI is the best option!?

Yes i noted. As some say, google is your friend.
So, IS2 hammer both coaxial and aes/ebu balanced digital connection it seems!?
If so i don't get why there's only one port for IS2 on the dac i ordered.
If jitter is zero and bandwidth is top, you'd like to connect a streamer and a transport to IS2. Nobody is pulling cables back and forth so this is annoying. Now it seems balanced digital is better than coaxial, so best would probably be to use a transport using IS2 for a streamer and a balanced digital for transport, or am i making the wrong assumption?
I just found 2 digital aes/ebu sets i used back in 2002.
One brand i don't remember, the other one is signal cable.
I also found 2 custom made Krell cast cables.

Perhaps i should try and see how these two digital cables work first.
If i don't hear much difference, i probably should skip my urge for better (more expensive) ditos. However, i am curious of Inakustiks 2404
https://www.in-akustik.de/en/cables-and-accessories/reference-selection/digital-cable/reference-digi...

I contacted the reseller of the Nuprime combo, he actually suggested to move up from CDT-8 Pro to CDT 10 instead of more "exotic cables".

Btw, how does Nordost Heimdall 2 sound?
Are they thin in lower mid and bass?

I remember the older Nordost were good match for bass heavy systems
This is weird that i say now. I had Audioquest Raven aes/ebu. I feel that my Supra IS2 cable sound better, so i sold the Raven. But i ain't to keen on skipping aes/ebu anyway since i don't use DSD needed upsample bandwidth. I like the lower settings if i can generalize!?
That means that even 354kHz often sound unnatural.So the DSD upsampling rate is not for me. As i have understood, right or wrong, this is when the high bandwidth of IS2 is better?
Anyway, i have just ordered a Cardas Clear aes/ebu. I really hope it is way better than what i have now. I still don't know if i can come further with this system. Maybe i would need more resolving speakers than Micromain27!?
Worst issues that i experience is still bass peaks. I dropped about 50% of my absorbers and got two Svanå V-6 bas absorbers set at 40-45Hz. But to be honest, i could use two more + a set of V-4 for 70-75Hz.