Esoteric P-05 - D-05 - anbody use the word sync ??

I used the P-03/D-03 combo first just with a BNC connector (Kimber D-60?) and then with two Kimbers and a G-ORb. Your question doesn't ask about the G-ORb, so I won't bother addressing the substantial improvement added by that. To operate separate Esoteric transports and DACs with the WORD connection disabled is like hopping on one foot rather than walking. I only did it once to make sure the connection was working, and the sound lost focus and became muddled and lost sharpness and definition the moment the connection was broken. Any BNC cable, no matter how cheap, makes a substantial improvement over no connection, although it is worth buying a good, although not a very pricey, DNC cable, which probably would be overkill.

Hi. Its Manny. The D-60 was about $150, and that probably was too much in the bang for bucks standard, but I just wanted to play safe. The Illuminati cables were very reasonable value when I used them, years ago, as digital audio cables, although they were never a match for, first, the Purist Dominus Rev. B and now the Stealth Varidig Sextets which replaced them between the P-03 and D-03, but simply as a BNC connection they're probably overkill. After all, they're not transmitting audio, just digital timing information. Esoteric (California) said any inexpensive BNC cables would work just as well, but I was too paranoid for that. I would definitely not invest anything more than $150 on this, however.