From: Timothy P. Stockman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:18 PM
Subject: MD: coax vs toslink...
>
> I think the purists prefer coax to toslink because the slight timing
> ambiguity instroduced by the multi-mode fiber can't pass their pico-second
> jitter specs. However, jitter is only important when driving a DAC, and
> every "good" DAC has a sophisticated timing recovery circuit in the
> receiver. If everything works as it should there is NO difference in the
> signal delivered to the DAC.
I prefer coax because I can get about 100m of it for �10. I can't even get
1m of optic for �10.
Magic
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