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Ended up getting a Scosche cable. It was interesting while researching to find out the kind of high-end cables that are available. There's a European one that costs 80 euros, and it looks great. But, if it isn't durable how it looks won't help. But that orange-black-green PC cable was el-crappo (it even made scratching noise when I moved it). I like the Scosche cable and have no regrets - but time will tell. cbc

Yea, I just received this dragonfly dac and I've been auditioning, auditioning, auditioning. Thanks steve and GM for the advice about the interconnects. I was a little confused at first because I didn't notice the detail about the mini audio cable option. Anyway, I don't have a high-end 3.5mm so I'm (temporarily) using the green cable from the PC tri-connector. (yea ugh) You'll need good interconnect (audioquest)? if you want use the 96k S. R. without a frightening array of shimmery jitters (dropouts; snapcracklepops). I'm leaning toward the evergreen, monster or scosche cables. Anyway I love it even mp3s on 44k, can't wait to boost it up with the better cable. (Maybe Let It Be isn't such a crappy Beatles album after all). cbc

I'm thinking of getting one of these dacs. But the connection to anything but a pair of headphones seems problematic. It's got this 3.5mm output, so do you need adaptors for PC and home audio? I figure you connect an adaptor cable with 2 3.5mm plugs for the "front" "back" of a 5.1 setup on a PC but what about regular audio systems? They seem pretty vague about this with no block diagrams or anything. (Not that I really need them but they wouldn't hurt for clarity)