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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
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mmarvin19
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Hi Osgorth.

German technicians are well-known perfectionists: ME-109 fighter plane, Panzer tanks, 88mm multi pupose canon,WW II standard 7.62 machine gun (which the US Army adopted as the MG60 in the late 50s and is still using 50 years later), the early Telefunken TVs and radio tuners, the VW bug, Porsche racing cars (especially, the 956 and the 962), anything optical, etc...

Perhaps MBL components are perfect and therefore not subject to improvement by cables.
Mike19
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