Viventis wrote: > Wow! I am so sorry to disagree, but what I have just read sounds like a > bunch of techno-babble published by the manufacturers of high end cables > to attempt to justify their exorbitant prices. > > Digital is binary. Binary is a sequence of 0's and 1's. If 100 > different cables transmit the exact same sequence of 0's and 1's to your > DAC, I guarantee that each will sound 100% the same. There is no such > thing as a flat 0, a sharp 1, a warm 0 or a harsh 1. They are nothing > more than numbers that are decoded by your DAC! > > If a cable is so poorly made that it is incapable of transmitting the > proper sequence, the result will be different. But that is the only > variable. > > This takes me back to the question of the OP. If a toslink or spdif > cable transmits the same sequence of 0's and 1's to the DAC, there will > be no difference in the output.
Spot on! I have read there are cold and hot zeros though :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Waldo Pepper's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95872 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
