Recommended USB Cables.

A couple of years ago I was feeling a little randy and bought myself an over the top (price, that is) USB - Shunyata Sigma.

Lucky for me, it was like verdant's acquaintance spoke about, it transformed my system performance. I'm not happy about spending that much and am sure a higher value could be found. I just haven't been motivated enough to experiment since possession is 9/10ths of the law. ha

Still have some guilt for outlaying that kind of cash...

Forgot to mention I had a Totaldac usb and a Curious USB cable prior.

The USB cable I am using now is the CAD 11 which is very expensive but I think it justifies the cost ( £1250.00 ). It completely blows away my old Tellurium silver cable with much richer tones and more detail.

I bought a Phasure USB cable. Do not have much to compare it with. For sure better than what it replaced.

Some respect shown on this site.

CARDAS CLEAR

I recently put an Audioquest Diamond USB 3.0 cable between a Seagate external drive (housing 24 and 16 bit FLAC and ALAC files) and a Cambridge Audio 851N streamer and was amazed by the results.  There is no other way to put it other than that the sound came alive in a way that I had never heard from my system before.

The Cambridge streamer is connected with Kimber Hero XLRs to my Mac pre-amp, which in turn is connected to a MAC solid state amp with more Kimbler Hero XLRs.  The final connection are Audioquest Rocket 88s speaker cables to a pair of B&W 702 Signatures. 

I thought the system sounded great until I swapped in the Audioquest Diamond USB 3.0 and all of a sudden I had a brand new stereo system.  The experience made me realize how much difference one weak link in a system can make.