NewBuyer;225454 Wrote: > Semi-recently, I spent some time testing various coax (DH labs, Apogee > Wyde-Eye, etc) against various glass-toslink cables out of the SB3. I > found the optical connection, consistently, sounded better in my > various system configs. However, my guess is that any such differences > are entirely due to the galvanic isolation along with the good quality > of the glass toslink cable. I know that S/PDIF coax is supposed to have > a trivial less jitter, but the Toslink still sounded better in my own > tests. Entirely subjective of course, but thought I would share it > regardless. In what way did the optical sound better? The only difference galvanic isolation should make would be elimination of a ground loop hum that you may or may not have with coax.
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