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Best Digital Connection?

I just purchased a used MD player through the Audiogon classifieds and want to take advantage of the digital-to-digital features available to me. What have you found to be the best digital connection method? Fiber optic? RCA-to-RCA digital interconnect? What about TOSLINK? What are the advantages and disadvantages to each, or doesn't it really matter? I thank you in advance for your feedback.
daddyo
south43
386 posts
 
I have always used coax. Have heard bad things about toslink, most companies don't even have that option. Good luck. BTW use coax that is true 75ohm.
brandt
13 posts
 
DO NOT USE TOSLINK! It requires electrical/optical/electrical conversion, each degrading the sound. Use a quality digital RCA connection(true 75 ohm) interconnect made for digital transmission.
keis
176 posts
 
Toslink isn't even hi-fi let alone high end. I'd rate the connection quality at follows. (I have all three connected between my Sonic Frontiers SFT-1 and SFD2MkII AEU/SBU - definitely the best. Improved sound stage and harmonic details Coax - Not bad but losses to the balanced clearly ST AT&T optical (don't confuse this with TOSLINK- it has a different receiver and physical connection) OK but when compared to the balanced the sound stage colapsed. Unfortunately many home theater receivers us TOSLINK connections as their primary interconnect method. It needs to be avoided because of its restricted bandwidth.
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