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Clear Day Cables Speaker Cables
Any more impressions? Especially interested in anyone that has compared these to Cardas speaker cables. 
C7 power cable for Blu-ray player?
The solution is easy: buy an Oppo (even a refurbished BDP-103) and then you can use a fancy power cord with the standard C13 connector if you want to upgrade. Spending nearly 50% the MSRP of an Onkyo Blu-ray player on a cable with a limited second... 
Cardas Power Cords / Furutech vs Cardas Terminations
You could also consider getting Golden Reference power cords. I know it's a minor qualm, but I really don't like bright blue cables everywhere! For reference: Clear Beyond use 3x10AWG conductors; Clear use 3x11AWG conductors; Golden Reference use ... 
External DAC For Oppo 105 At What Cost?
To clarify the above because I cannot further edit the post: no player can output music from SACDs from an optical or digital output (save the Vanity board modification I described) due to copyright protection. This includes even the CD layer. The... 
External DAC For Oppo 105 At What Cost?
I’m writing to correct misinformation above from yingtonggao in the post on 09-10-13 at 12:44pm:The Oppo 103(D)/105(D) coaxial and optical outputs are not limited to 48khz for all files types and do not upsample Redbook audio from 44.1khz to 48khz... 
Clear Day Interconnects
Hi Geoff,The Clear Day interconnects do have an arrow on them and Paul cooks them on a cable burner in that direction before shipping. I can chime in a bit on the Clear Day RCA interconnects (sound, not directionality) from my experience with them...