Wiin Pro + Qed Quartz optical 192 Mhz can't work

[Zardoz]

Hello everyone, I purchased a QED REFERENCE OPTICAL QUARTZ 1 meter cable for my PRO Plus, in the hope of further increasing the quality, I connected it to my Merging Hapi which has no electrical input. The sound obtained seems good to me but the music at 192 Mhz don't play while with the Wiim cable they have no problems, do you have any suggestions?

 

[Brantome]

Stick with the WiiM cable - if it ain't broke, don't fix it

Personally I don't see why another optical cable will do anything for the sound...

 

[steadyshot]

Send an email to QED they respond quickly

 

[steadyshot]

If I remember correctly someone long time ago with a chord dac used the reference quartz with the pro model. It is somewhere in this forum.

Here you are: https://forum.wiimhome.com/threads/optical-cables-dont-fit.253/post-23338

 

[Zardoz]

yes I read it thanks, I wrote to Qed and I'll let you know what he replies

 

[Smartplug]

The stock optical that came from wiim can reach 192 without issue. I don’t see point of replacing what comes in box unless you just want to waste money.

 

[Zardoz]

The stock optical that came from wiim can reach 192 without issue. I don’t see point of replacing what comes in box unless you just want to waste money.

Because it is certainly less likely to break than Wiim's

 

[steadyshot]

The stock optical that came from wiim can reach 192 without issue. I don’t see point of replacing what comes in box unless you just want to waste money.

How do you know ?

 

[Zardoz]

How do you know

just look at them

 

[Zardoz]

just look at them

however the problem posed was because the QED cable does not work with 192Mhz with Wiim Pro +, I don't know whether to buy it or not, since I already had it, forgive my bad English

 

[Brantome]

Because it is certainly less likely to break than Wiim's

How often would you be moving or bending the cable to make that an issue? It's fairly common knowledge that optical cables from any source have a minimum bending radius and as long as you let the cable bend naturally and don't force it into sharp bends, then it'll be fine.

 

[Brantome]

Guys you both understood wrong the “how do you know” question and it was a clear as it could be. So , how do you know @Smartplug that it is a waste of money .

According to this source there are measurable differences in the depiction of the square wave and other differences .

Group Test: 30 Καλώδια μεταφοράς σήματος S/PDIF μέχρι 1000 ευρώ [avmentor.gr]

Group Test: 30 Καλώδια μεταφοράς σήματος S/PDIF μέχρι 1000 ευρώ

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And the #$64000 question, are those differences audible?

SPDIF Optical Cables, can they perform different?

I have a cheapo SPDIF audio cable from amazon, and thick, braided fancy metal / gold ended SPDIF cable that someone gave me when I bought the Topping D90 off them. When I plug in my Amazon SPDIF cable and the other Gold ended one, the gold ended one seems to sound better. As an engineer, I...

audiosciencereview.com

 

[steadyshot]

And the #$64000 question, are those differences audible?

SPDIF Optical Cables, can they perform different?

I have a cheapo SPDIF audio cable from amazon, and thick, braided fancy metal / gold ended SPDIF cable that someone gave me when I bought the Topping D90 off them. When I plug in my Amazon SPDIF cable and the other Gold ended one, the gold ended one seems to sound better. As an engineer, I...

audiosciencereview.com

This question cannot be easily proved and it is a very complex one .But again it could be under some circumstances it could be , but not under some others. I don’t want to discuss audibility since it is a dead end discussion !

 

[onlyoneme]

I also have a Qed toslink cable, it's more perfect than bit-perfect, but I prefer to use the cable that came with the WiiM. Period.

 

[Zardoz]

I also have a Qed toslink cable, it's more perfect than bit-perfect, but I prefer to use the cable that came with the WiiM. Period.

ok I'll have to do this too, but do you have the same problem with 192 mhz? I would like to understand if the problem is the interfacing with Merging Hapi

 

[Smartplug]

Because it is certainly less likely to break than Wiim's

How’s it’s going to break unless you’re putting weight on it? It’s just passing bit stream. Wiim did not put that cable if is not reliable in fact once it click it’s tight and secured.

 

[Zardoz]

Updates, I borrowed a Chord Mojo and with the QED cable it works perfectly even at 192 Mhz, so the problem is between the QED cable and the Hapi Merging Dac interface, it remains to be understood why the Wiim cable works and QED doesn't, but that's okay, we know one more thing