Menno wrote:

And always remember that the whole chain is as strong as the weakest
link. The weakest link may not be the interlink or the speaker cable.

And it would appear that the original poster used a PC sound card as his
test bed platform... so he's probably right, the analogue stage on most
PC sound cards is pretty appalling.

So it's no wonder the OP didn't hear a difference, as the weakest link
in the chain was the sound card.

Now, repeat the experiment using a sound card with SPDIF out, one that
*doesn't* resample everything to 48kHz (cos that makes the sound fuzzy
the way most sound cards do it), and hook it up to a high quality
offboard DAC. Such as an Arcam Black Box 50.

Then re-post with your results.

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