325xi;184113 Wrote: > Although I totally agree about Swiss watch thing - that's why I'm > interested in getting the best even though I might not hear it in > real. >
Well, I like to buy the best over the line of audibility, but not at the cost of an order of magnitude in price. So a Transporter makes sense to me over an SB3, but you can see i have SB3s too :-) I don't have the top end DAC you might notice. I use coax and toslink interchangably. I do not have run lengths to justify one over the other - it is mostly driven by a) I am used to optical gear professionally so its fun (but more expensive) to have it at home and b) what connections the gear I am connecting need. When using optical I pick a known to me manufacturer of decent optical patch cables. Tight fit and good seating are all that I look for. "The network is the connector" after all... A short plastic optical connection from a reputable patch cable manufacturer should be more than good enough. Same goes for the coax cable. -- Eric Carroll Transporter-Bryston 3B SST-Paradigm Reference Studio 60 v.4 SB3-Rotel RB890-B&W Matrix 805 SB3-Pioneer VSX-49TXi-Mirage OM7+C2+R2 ReadyNAS NV+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
