Straight Wire has great experience in manufacturing digital cables. With digital USB and DAC cables, manufacturing quality is particularly important for the cable to perform consistently between production runs and even well designed cables using good quality materials will not perform well if the manufacturing process is not well controlled.
As usual, Straight Wire digital cables are offered in several performance levels to match the equipment and performance level desired at very reasonable prices.

As with video cables, multiple shields and better insulation are important to minimize interference and reduce error in digital data transmmision. The less the receiver chip has to work to correct data errors, the more the time sensitive low level transient information is preserved that creates the imaging, air and spaciousness in the analog and ultimately acoustical domain. This is why digital cables sound different. Manufacturers like Straight Wire go to great lengths to reduce jitter and propagation delays in digital circuitry between and even within large silcon wafer chips. Relatively speaking cables are a significant and influential element in the digital chain.

Note unlike analog interconnects, digital cables sound better in longer lengths. This is because even with the very best termination, signal reflections occur at the interface, and with high speed progation digital signals, these reflections are less likely to resonate and interfere with the original signal over a longer length due to the progation delay between reflections. Cables less than 1M should be avoided. 1.5M is a popular choice. Straight Wire does extensive testing of it's digital cables so they conform to standards.