As I think I mentioned before, I have a friend (who is an engineer by profession) who owns a company that makes fibre for many of the big telcos and ISPs...he also likes his hi-fi...
He did fall off his chair laughing...I had to buy him another drink! Toslink over 5 metres is absolutely fine for the (relatively) pathetic bandwidth/response requirements of SPDIF. Even "plastic" is fine. In some setups, coax (BNC or RCA) or even AES/EBU causes issues that don't exist with toslink. This is a result of earth loops and/or RFI Injection via the cable/terminations. However this is all pretty small beer in the scheme of things. After all, many of the CD's we listen to carry audio that has been down an optical fibre interface or two at some point in its develpment :o) -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 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
