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Short coax digital cable: qed audioquest ricabl

Hi everyone
Need a short coaxial digital cable to connect amplifier and Cdp, both Cambridge audio. Cd has no dac, just mechanic, dac is in the amp.
1 meter max.

One school goes it's digital, cable makes no difference, spend the last possible. Second school thinks even short cables matter and there are quality cables.

So far I have the Audioquest Forest 0,75m, their entry level, for which I spent 25 €.
I am tempted by Qed Performance, which cost around €60.

I also discovered this: http://www.ricable.com/coaxial-hi-end.html
which seems very good, but not so popular. What do you think. Would this bring improvement over the Audioquest Forest?

Othesr swear by mogami. Others to qed.
Ideas?
thanks
lorcar

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kijanki
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Get 1.5-2m or less than a foot. There are technical reason for that.
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kijanki
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Rodman, It is system thing, as Al stated, but in your case it is possible that your transport had about 10ns transition time. Beginning of the transition resulted in reflection from the end of the cable (impedance boundary) coming 5ns later (5ns/m x 0.5m x 2) deforming shape of original transition in the middle, affecting threshold crossing time (jitter). With 1.5m cable first reflection came back 15ns later completely missing transition. Of course it is only a speculation. In addition propagation time is dielectric dependent. (assumed 5ns/m comes from 60% of light speed). Best thing is to try what works best.
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