What length digital cable?


OK, at this point I'm fairly confused over what length digital cable to use. The manufacturer asserts that "shorter is better." Some Audiogon members agree, but others have put forth reasonable arguments to the contrary. What do you think?

My DAC/transport are CAL Alpha/Delta and the current digital cable is a 1/2 meter Kimber Illuminations D-60. Please weave that into the thread if possible.

Looking forward to the responses. Thanks!
fpeel

Showing 1 response by rcprince

Panzercat's post is what I've heard as well, and it confirms what my dealer and I felt we heard after a number of months of empirical listening using different lengths of the same cable--roughly 1-1/2 meter lengths seemed to sound a little better. Kimber claims that .75 meter works as well as 1.5 meters for their KS2020, and that's what I've used from my DVD player for 24/96 discs with no problems I can detect. So who really knows....