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When connecting a DVD player with BOTH optical (Toslink) and Coaxial digital outputs to a receiver equiped with BOTH inputs, which type of patch cable would you use and why?This may have been answered already, but I looked a long time in the past posts, and ran out of patience.
Why? Sounds better. I am not qualified to tell you the physics of it all, but there is not competition. Coax connections are consistently better across every single system I have ever had experience with.
COAX without a doubt. I have personally heard this in mine and several of my friends system and everytime the optical cable was of higher cost and the performance was very low. I used a Technics decoder, a friend's 1105, and HK 65 the sounds all had the same problems: compression of dynamics, bass limiting, and shrinkage of the soundstage. Though detail was still there it seemed like it was faint. Using the DVD Essentials and a Spl meter all speaker levels dropped 1 db and bass 2-3 db with the volume in the same position. Even a cheap coax is more effective than a good (not great) optical.
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