jeffluckett;152340 Wrote: > > Anyway, you could more easily sell me on there being problems from > induced currents in a coax than you ever could on an optical cable. > Either the bits arrive at thier destination or they don't.
Not all digital standards are created equal - S/PDIF is synchronous, meaning that the time at which the bits arrive is used to generate the clock which controls the DAC, and therefore timing variations affects the sound. Something like TCP/IP, on the other hand, is asynchronous - the bits arrive when they arrive, and if they don't arrive they get sent again. Not sure about HDMI, but from P Floding's comments I guess it's asynchronous. That said, in my own tests I was unable to distinguish between coax and toslink, so I'd be very skeptical about any differences between toslink cables. I challenge anyone to distinguish between toslinks in a blind test. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29353 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
