Is there a major difference between the output quality of RCA jacks compared
to Coax?
Yoan

"Jim Mauro" wrote in message
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Truth be told, I don't get it. A few years back, I bought an
external DAC, and needed a cable to run from the digital out of
my CD player to the DAC. Both TOSLINK and Coax where options.

I did a bit of research, and discovered that the golden ears of
audio (Stereophile, TAS) find digital Coax superior to TOSLINK,
without exception. In fact, Stereophile does not include TOSLINK
cable in "Recommended Components", as they do not recommend its
use at all.

I didn't have the time or energy to experiment, so I went with
digital Coax. I am of course quite happy with it. Would a TOSLINK
cable in the same system sound different? Can't say - never tried it.

I don't actually understand why there should be a difference.
Bits is bits, right? This cable is simple transfering a bit stream
over a very short distance. Assuming all the bits arrive at the
same intervals as they went in, why should one cable "sound" different
from another? Do not know.

/jim

Colin wrote:
A stereo shop tried to sell me a better quality fiber optic cable, I
don't
remember brand names or anything, they claimed better sound quality.
The
regular cords were $20 to $30.00 and the good one was $70.00 Canadian
dollars. Do the people of this group fell it makes a difference what
TOSLINK cord you use. I thought all it had to do was pass on a digital
signal. What about digital coax.?

thanks,

Colin