P Floding Wrote: > If you have an optical cable, as well as a coax, hook it up with both at > the same time. Switch between them. If you can't hear any difference, > unhook the coax and listen to the optical. Can you now hear any > difference compared to before? If yes, go with the optical! If no, go > with the optical anyway! > > If, on the other hand, you could actually hear a difference when both > coax and optical were connected at the same time, then you have to > choose based on comparing optical (with disconnected coax!), to coax. > > Why all this strange reasoning? > Well, I've come to the conclusion that at least in my system the act of > connecting the SB to the DAC galvanically (electrically) makes a bigger > difference to the sound than the actual path the digital information > takes! So the coax is a bad influence even if I'm actually listening to > the optical.
This info was posted a while back: "I just purchased a brand new SB3, and a colleague subjected the digital outputs to a quick jitter measurement using Audio Precision equipment. Results: SB3 digital coax out jitter: ~99ps SB3 digital optical out jitter: ~892ps" If you system sounds better with Toslink, than you've got noise problems in your DAC, or processor that need to be addressed. Probably SMPS noise and poor quality pulse transformers. -- mauidan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mauidan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21775 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
