On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:33:44 -0500, SimonLW wrote:


"Paul L" wrote in message
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My DVD player and my digital reciever have both coaxial and optical jacks.
Which connection should I use to get better sound quality or are they all
equal?

Its all digital right? Unless there is a design flaw, I would think all the
digital 1s and 0s would arrive in the same order either way. I don't know
the protocol in these, but on a computer network, the protocol checks to be
sure the data arrives exactly as it was sent for if a single bit got
changed, the data or program could be trashed.

Of course, but audio bits are *magic* and magic bits always sound better
when passed through expensive cables. Everybody knows this.

It doesn't matter if the cables are so electrically medciore that the
receiver can barely differentiate a zero from a one. It doesn't matter if
the cables are designed without the slightest attention paid to sound
engineering principles. Cables made from iguana spit will sound better than
cables made from plain ordinary copper, but only if they're expensive as
hell.