80% of my listening is hi-res streaming from Qobuz and Tidal
My limited understand of the hierarchy of good, better, best guidelines is as follows, and in all cases the shorter the cable the better
optical, coax, USB, I2S
I've tested all of them and have gravitated to I2S
This is one of the areas where the symmetry dance between your components is important
The SQ of entry level electronics typically will sound their best when using good cables but great cables will not promote entry level electronics to reference grade sound
My limited understand of the hierarchy of good, better, best guidelines is as follows, and in all cases the shorter the cable the better
optical, coax, USB, I2S
I've tested all of them and have gravitated to I2S
This is one of the areas where the symmetry dance between your components is important
The SQ of entry level electronics typically will sound their best when using good cables but great cables will not promote entry level electronics to reference grade sound