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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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I still think a more interesting question is: Why do AC cables sound so different? or Why do AC cords make such an impact on a systems sound?

The AC cord seems much more mysterious to me because it does not directly carry the audio signal at all in a system.

I posed this question and there were only 6 responses at:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?fcabl&1042221110&openusid&zzTok20000&4&5#Tok20000

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