Covenant;538075 Wrote: > Wow, what a great review-can't wait to get mine. I was interested in > your comment about glass optical interconnect cables. I use a high > quality coaxial one handmade by someone on one of the hifi forums. I > guess if it was produced by one of the well known makes it would cost > three figures. Have you compared yours to a decent coaxial? Glass > opticals are not often mentioned. > Sorry if this is an audiophile question but its your fault Logitech-you > have obviously made an audiophile product!
What lead me to optical was that I had a slight ground loop (or something similar) going on when I had the SB2 connected via coaxial digital to the Pioneer. I had a cheap plastic Toslink cable that came with my PC's soundcard so I tried it and the low level hum went away but I wasn't happy with the mildly grainy (for lack of a better word) sound quality with the Toslink. I googled for "Toslink sound quality" and found lots of posts and jitter measurements comparing plastic to glass Toslink. The consensus was that glass is much better if your system can reveal the differences. I bought a 3' glass Toslink cable for about $30 (BetterCables.com) and the sound quality was grainless AND hum free. Problem solved. I like the idea of the connection being electrically decoupled in a sense. -- AudioFrog ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AudioFrog's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9568 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77649 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
