regular interconnect for digital signal transfer


I'm planning on getting a seperate dac and using it in conjunction with my existing cd player.my existing cd player has appropriate digital outputs,I will use the balanced output to feed the dac.
This is the question,can I use a standard balanced interconnect cable to pass the digital signal from the cd player to the dac?
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great to see another person using the vdh first as a digital interconnect - that thing is amazing (i'm using the metal screen version of the first). it creates a full wall of sound like no other digital interconnect i've ever tried. i also have the vdh digicoupler, stanwal, which iirc is vdh's top digital interconnect (at least it used to be) and mine are in 1.5m, but they may have stopped making it, i dunno. it's more resolving than the first and is amazing on video. once for kicks, as i'm so impressed with the firsts on digital audio i tried them as video cables and it was all warm red... PROOF that a digital cable can be warm!

so it never hurts to try cables out as digital interconnects. unless i'm mistaken, many companies' digital interconnects are in fact just their analog cables sold singularly - i suppose it's cost effective to just use connectors that are 75 ohm on all their cables to simplify their product lines.

but all that being said, i've tried some analog cables that sounded horrible as digital ones, so i'd at least buy an uber-cheapie digital cable to use as a reference if nothing else. i'm sure amazon (for instance) has digital cables that start around 5 bucks or so. monoprice is probably even cheaper, but they're shipping is more than the cables often (and i'm not in love with their analog cables)

and you never know, the cheapie might sound awesome.