Do Transports Matter--or are bitses bitses?

[Currawong]

I'm sorry I missed seeing the earlier posts showing the results of using an RCA cable etc. Thanks guys for those, they are very interesting. This is the kind of thing we need more of.

If the cost of something like a Berkeley DAC wasn't a big spend for me, I'd probably be the kind of person who'd consider a Diverter as well. However, nowadays, a company making a high-end DAC that was not using a more jitter/whatever immune input I'd consider a waste of time buying to begin with. The way I look at it now is to imagine a digital source as an analogue device attempting to send a square wave at 75 Ohms. So ultimately I've decided that ideally I want to use gear that is sending and receiving as close to 75 Ohms as possible the whole way through the digital chain.