slartibartfast;661424 Wrote: > I've used coax from my receiver ever since I bought my V-DAC because > everyone seems to say that coax is better than optical. I recently > splashed out £5 on a Toslink cable from Amazon just to try it and not > expecting to hear any difference, but I was pleasantly surprised to say > the least when I found (I think) that a slight hard edge to the sound > which was more noticeable at higher volumes had disappeared resulting > in a much more natural and less fatiguing sound. I have no idea why > this should be true. Maybe my 0.75m coax was too short :-)
Could be - if you are using coax, 1.5m is the generally-accepted minimum length :-) There is no "length" issue with good quality Toslink cables. "Good Quality" does not mean it costs thousands... -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense 3.3/2.0+INGUZ DRC - MF M1 DAC - Linn 5103 - full Aktiv 5.1 system (6x LK140's, ESPEK/TRIKAN/KATAN/SEIZMIK 10.5), Pekin Tuner, Townsend Supertweeters, Blue Jeans Belden Digital,Kimber 8TC Speaker & Chord Signature Plus Interconnect cables Stax4070+SRM7/II phones Kitchen Boom, Outdoors: SB Radio, Harmony One remote for everything. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90211
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