Between several Redbook transports and DACS over the years, I was a Kimber Orchid AES/EBU guy too. In all prior instances I found the Orchid sonically preferable to comparable premium S/PDIF cables from the same cable designer (Kimber D-60 & several Stereovox models). The Directstream likes a good I2S cable even better. Both the Wireworld Platinum Starlight HDMI and Revelation Audio Labs I2S/HDMI cables outperform the Orchid between a Jay’s Audio CDT2 MkII and a DirectStream Dac.
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