AndyC_772;186765 Wrote: > Funnily enough, that's exactly what I thought about a year ago, when I > confidently ditched my (early, and rather expensive) DVD player in > favour of a cheap DVD recorder. I figured that all digitally connected > sources should sound the same, and therefore, that I could play CDs > using the DAC in my A/V receiver and they'd sound just as good as > before. My old DVD player used a coax connection, the new one used > Toslink. > > It took me about a week to realise that something was wrong. Music was > boring, the soundstage rather flat and instruments hard to pick out > individually - I just wasn't enjoying it any more. Sadly by this point > my old DVD player had vanished at the hands of Ebay. > > So, I bought another one - a newer model well reviewed for its audio > quality - and plugged it in with a coax connection. It sounds great, > normal service is resumed. > > This isn't a controlled experiment, of course, but it does prove (to > me, at least) that all digital sources are not equal. The same DAC and > amp combination really can sound different when fed with a different > source. Ironically it's the cheap recorder that's most tolerant of > discs in poor condition, so I don't believe for a minute that bit > errors are creeping in to cloud the issue.
Actually, I was not referring to the differences between different sources, but between the same source connected via coax vs. toslink. -- jeffmeh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jeffmeh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3986 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
