P Floding Wrote: > To get all potential benefits from Toslink you really must disconnect > the coax cable. Otherwise it will provide a permanent path for > electrical noise via the ground connector -which is exactly what the > Toslink is good at avoiding! (I assume your DAC doesn't disconnect > unused ground inputs. 99% don't.) > > In my system Toslink sounds exactly like the coax when the coax is > connected. If I disconnect the coax and listen to Toslink the system > now sound way better than before. The effect is subtle when A/B'ing, > but very clear when listening for longer sessions. (This is despite > Toslinks worse jitter performance on paper -I speculate that the > Toslink jitter is more decorrelated from the audio signal.)
I was always curious how comes that theoretically superior optical connection for some reason measures few times higher jitter then coax. I see few option here - it's all BS and Toslink doesn't register higher jitter - higher jitter caused by insufficient quality consumer level implementation - the concept of Toslink is inferior So, where's the truth? -- 325xi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 325xi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5661 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24613 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
