Aes Ebu Digital Cable Review

As the m50 2 has a balanced aes ebu output and the directstream an aes ebu input a homemade balanced digital interconnect resurrected from a decade or so earlier was pressed into service.

Aes ebu digital cable review.

Aes ebu is more suitable for longer cable runs than coaxial connections and so it s less susceptible to common mode high frequency crap that s why recording studios use aes ebu digital cables. Made with a pair of neutrik plugs and a piece of van den hul 110 ohm cable it had served to connect an audio alchemy jitter reduction device to a couple. Cardas clear digital aes ebu employs a perfectly symmetrical tri axial geometry by using air tubes to separate and suspend our ptfe taped matched propagation conductors. Aes ebu can be single ended balanced or optical this cable is a balanced digital interconnect.

Though there are many options i prefer an aes ebu digital cable connection between the digital hybrid devialet 1000 pro integrated amplifier. Aes ebu developed by the audio engineering society and the european broadcast union are the two channel digital standard for interconnecting digital devices. For system 1 below i only needed speaker cables power cords and aes ebu digital cables. With the aurender n10 connected to a wadia 521 and many other dacs i now find that coax and aes ebu are much closer to each other in sound than i have heard before.

Switching to the m5 s traditional digital output section using the mogami aes ebu and belden rg59 s pdif cables the offset between these two cables is the same as i always hear it the mogami a little tighter and cleaner and the belden a little fuller and more sonorous. This is my personal home system and lately it has been in a constant state of flux as it evolves. Additional air tubes are arranged outside the core of the cable to place the braided shield in the perfect position.