adamdea;656162 Wrote: > Fibre optic cables are able to transmit data at huge bandwidths without > (as far as I am aware) huge issues, > Yet there appears to be an audiophile consensus that coax sounds better > than toslink. > Can anyone explain why this might be. > Therre is a tremendous amount of interest on this forum for software > and firmware mods which are intended to improve the sound from a dac > connected to a Touch. It is difficult to see what effect these mods can > have other than through the transmission of electrical noise which would > presumably not be passed via toslink. > So why is it that toslink is supposed to sound worse than coax. The > only possible explanations i can find are > 1) the signal sent by toslink leads to data errors in the receiver (ie > the receiver cannot accurately read the bits) or contains a large > amount of interface jitter which the dac is unable to remove. Is this > something inherent in the toslink medium or is it the fault of bad > transmitters? > 2) the operation of the optical/electrical conversion in the dac > adversely affects the dac or analogue stages somehow Yes... My friend who owns a fibre company that supplies broadcasters finds this all hilarious... As do his customers...
modern TOSLINK cables and connectors do not add interface jitter and can operate at high bandwiths. -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90211 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
