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Q. Which analogue cable is capable of hi res audio?

Answer:

Your network streamer has already converted the audio from digital to analogue, so it doesn’t matter how digitally fast the cables are because they are working in the analogue domain. Here, you need a cable with unsurpassed analogue audio ability and for this, we would recommend the Reference Audio 40 cables with complimentary conductor technology silver plated conductors and ferrite screening.


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