LavaJoe Wrote: > The sales guy was very convinced that coax was far superior to toslink. > If there was any truth in this, it must have been jitter (what else > could it be?), but I never found out what the basis for this opinion > was (of course, high-end stereo sales people tend not to use concrete > reasons for good and bad).
The reason I've heard from some engineers is that the conversion process from one medium to another (eg. optical to electrical) is where there is the greatest probability of adding jitter. With coax, everything stays electrical, but with toslink, the signal must be converted from electrical to optical and back. Coincidentially, one of the arguments that says a hard drive is better than a CD is that the conversion from magnetic to electrical is far simpler than optical to electrical... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=18772 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
