“Do cables matter?” is one of the oldest arguments in audio, and most of what gets said on either side is noise. Marketing that asks you to believe. Reviews that ask you to feel. A price that asks you not to look too closely. Cable Matters is where we do the opposite. Some of it is engineering: the geometry, the metallurgy, the reasons a design does what it does. Some of it is practical: how a cable behaves in a real system, who relies on it, how and where it’s built. And some of it is simply about the music. Nothing to take on faith, just what we know, so you can decide for yourself. We’ve spent more than thirty years earning the answer.
A digital coax cable has one job: carry the signal from your streamer or CD transport to your DAC without adding anything to it. A handful of design choices decide whether it pulls that off, and one of them is the connector almost everyone gets...
