CD out: Digital or Analog?


I have a digital out on the back of my Arcam CD62. Should I use it to connect to a B&K AVR 202 or just stick with the MIT interconnects?
heimertd283

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heimert, try it both ways and use what you prefer. I'm not that familiar with your B&K, but some similar devices have DSP manipulation that is only availible with a digital signal. Whether or not this manipulation is good or not is controversial.
Porschecab, if you use the analog out you are hearing the DAC built into the CD player. If you use the digital out you hear the DAC in the processor (when properly set up). If you use the analog pass through of the processor you hear the what ever analog signal that was presented to the processor with out (or more likely very little) effect of the processor.
Using the digital out put does provide the oportunity for increased jitter.