Why do digital cables sound different?


I have been talking to a few e-mail buddies and have a question that isn't being satisfactorily answered this far. So...I'm asking the experts on the forum to pitch in. This has probably been asked before but I can't find any references for it. Can someone explain why one DIGITAL cable (coaxial, BNC, etc.) can sound different than another? There are also similar claims for Toslink. In my mind, we're just trying to move bits from one place to another. Doesn't the digital stream get reconstituted and re-clocked on the receiving end anyway? Please enlighten me and maybe send along some URLs for my edification. Thanks, Dan
danielho

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Leme@lone.com
No actually you'd be wrong!...I swear!!!
In one of John's (Dunlavy's)systems, HE WAS USING LAMP CORD FOR THE SPEAKER CABLES!!!!(all-be-it 12awg).
Now don't get me wrong, I think the gear he was using was not so good either. Infact the refernce system, which used SCIV's, had Marantz MA500 mono blocks, and a digital Marantz pre/pro up front!!...OH THE GLORY OF SOUND!!!! Patch cord IC's, Lamp cord for speaker wire, mid-fi(at best) gear...I couldn't believe what I was seeing/hearing!
He believed(JD) that a good amp was a good amp, and all wire was the same if it measure(with his test equipment) proper impedence/inductance/capacitance or whatever, it HAS TO SOUND THE SAME he stated! Infact, he went on to often say that "God himself couldn't hear the difference in two wires/cables measuring the same values!!!!! Ehem......