Matt Silberstein wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:33:44 -0500, in rec.audio.tech , "SimonLW"
in 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.

Network transmissions allow for re-send of packets, audio does not.

I think spdif has a parity bit - but that's your lot !

Graham