Best connection: composite, digital coax, toslink?


I'm about to connect a SAT reciever, cd player, dvd player, and a vcr to my new Denon 5803(doesn't have XLR). What's considered the best type connection for sound quality?
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Showing 3 responses by rwwear

Never, in my opinion. The bandwidth is still way past the point of human hearing.
You don't specify what outputs and inputs you have. But in general the Sat should have a toslink so use that for it but be sure to hook up the analog RCAs also. The CD player could have toslink or coax but the receiver may only have one or the other. Most cases use the coax for the digital but hook up the analog RCAs also. Do the same with the DVD player and make sure you set the Denon to Auto for the input type. It will automatically choose the digital input most of the time. But you can switch to analog if you want to just to compare the sound.
His receiver is not going to have glass opitcal or XLR and maybe not coax(RCA). Toslink is fine it doesn't have the bandwidth that coax has but you probably won't notice.