AudioQuest Forest Coax 0.75 M

I use a Schiit Eitr/Modi Multibit/Magni 3 stack on my desk in my home office for headphone listening. As setups go, it has plenty of power, but its footprint is small enough that it doesn't get in the way of my work, an important consideration since I do lots of sketching at my desk. Could've gotten something from iFi or Chord that would've been really good and even more compact, but the thing about separates is that you don't necessarily buy it all at once. I accumulated the three parts of the stack over the course of about a year and a half.Unfortunately, my Stack, while pretty good, didn't sound as good as I felt it should. It seemed a little congested, a little glaring, a little cramped. The soundstage, separation, details... felt they should've been better based on my experience with other Schiit components at audio shows, and then I had it confirmed when I had a chance to listen to the exact same setup but with different cables. You see, the triple Schiit stack is a very cable-centric system. You need a USB cable from the computer to the Eitr, then a digital coaxial cable from the Eitr to the Modi M, and then an RCA cable from the Modi to the Magni. Lots of opportunity for the signal to get picked away at by less-than-stellar connections.You see, I've heard so many times that cables are cables are cables that, although that doesn't seem intuitively right to me, I just went with it. It seems reasonable to think that better conductors mean a better signal means better sound. The controversy is even greater with digital cables because of the binary nature of them. But even a square wave / pulse can get muddled by a bad conductor or interference, right? I'd think so at least, not that I'm an expert. I dumped most of my science credits and electives into chemistry in college. Probably should've taken more physics.Setting that aside, I had been using cables from the bottom of the barrel. Why? Dogma. I'd been told that cables are snake oil so many times that I didn't even question that the cables might be the problem. Good ol' blind faith. But the facts were indisputable. The Stack with the decent cables sounded flat-out better than my stack, and I was hearing it with a pair of headphones that I'm very familiar with (HE-400i). I can't speak to the difference between decent cables and really expensive cables, but I can say with confidence that the step up from total garbage cables to decent cables absolutely makes a difference.So after a little poking around, I settled on the green Audioquests (USB, digital coax, and RCA). It'd be a hair over $100, but I figured that if a $100 set of Audioquest cables can't outdo the crapola cables I had, then it might be time to just sell my stack and get something less cable-dependent. The good news is that the new cables worked like a charm. The analogue RCA cable did make the biggest difference, but I swapped my old and new cables back and forth ad nauseam, and all of them made a difference. The cumulative effect of swapping all three bad cables for the three green Audioquest cables wasn't subtle. Everything became smoother, clearer, and separation and imaging improved considerably.So, if you're using mega low-end cables, cables that you may have gotten for free bundled up with various electronics purchases over the years, if you're using those free cables with your audio gear and you feel that your audio experience seems little flat, a little cardboard-y, a little congested or compressed, maybe a touch harsh or glaring... well, I suggest that you buy some decent entry-level audiophile cables. Again, I have no idea what the difference between a $100 set and a $1000 set of cables would be, but I do know that the difference between free cables and $100 cables is very audible.

Excellent made cable. Don't buy the cheapest or the most expensive. You do want quality and insulation. This one has it. Looks like brand new.

I’ve had 3 different cables in my system which isn’t high end but sounds like it Marantz amp project tt Sutherland pre amp elac dbr towers schitt modi 3 nad cd that is now a transport. What I’ll tell you is I started with blue jeans coax then tried a single audioquest g snake and noticed a big difference so for the money tried this dedicated coax and it’s a keeper out of the 3 . Just get it

Sounds good rca plugs in nice not too tight like most upgraded high end cables. Believe me I have used dozens over the years. For you wiim pro users this does fit the ultra low clearance recessed rca can't believe wiim dropped the ball on that key part of there design. Anyways another quality Audioquest product also has good flexibility might upgrade to the cinnamon or carbon to eek out a bit more performance and or bragging rights lol...

Expensive, but not as insane as some cables. I good investment.

I use it to connect my Cambridge cd player to a Cambridge DAC, great sound quality

I was skeptical about the improvements that a digital coax cable would make, since I have a re-clocker to remove jitter before the data goes to a high end D/A. I know the improvements speaker cables make and interconnects, but why pay more for a better coax? For the price though, I figured it was worth a try. I expected to go back and forth a few times between this and my basic coax to see if I could hear any difference; however, the first note sung was all I needed. There was a small, but meaningful and audible difference in the quality and richness of the signing voice. It sounded more like it was coming from a real person. For this price, it's a great upgrade.

I'm using it to connect the digital output of an Onkyo CD player into the digital input of a Marantz CD player since I like the Marantz DAC better. This coaxial is replacing an optical cable, and it yields a much better sound. Clearer, and louder, plus a slight left channel bias from the optical cable has been ameliorated. Recommended for your digital to digital connections.