st2000 Wrote: 
> 
> For once it doesn't matter - they are both digital. Save your money for
> fat speaker cables!
> 
I'm with you on that. Bits will be bits.

st2000 Wrote: 
> 
> Maybe, just maybe, if you have a badly wired house (that is the outlets
> are at different ground potential) and you go plugging your equipment in
> these different outlets you may succumb to ground loop problems. Then
> the optical toslink (aka spdiff) cable would be safer. 
> 
With you on that as well.

Just so set some of the terminology straight, no offense:)

The name of the plugs on optical cable is TosLink (something Toshiba
developed).
S/PDIF (Sony / Philips Digital Interconnect Format just describes the
protocol used to transfer audio digitally. The same data is transmitted
in both TosLink cables and coaxial ones, they are both used for S/PDIF.
An S/PDIF cable could then be either one.


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