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"Cables can “smear” digital signals by attenuating the highest frequencies."
Yeah, right. If you get "smeared" digital signals beyond the sampling threshold, you'll get so many data errors that nothing will work.
The only thing that matters is whether whatever is clocking the DAC has a constant clock rate and that you don't get a buffer underrun on whatever feeds it data.
If this were a real problem, it would have shown up on analog VGA monitors as a wobbly image. Those are also an analog signal from a DAC coming from a clocked data stream. Several orders of magnitude faster than for audio. There have been VGA devices with jitter problems, and it's really obvious - vertical lines aren't straight. That was pretty much fixed by the time VGA went away.
(There was once a $13,500 HDMI cable. Really[1]. It was laughed at on Amazon.[2])
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2015/01/02/please-don...
[2] https://www.amazon.com/WireWorld-Platinum-Starlight-Cable-Me...