Digital Vs. Toslink, your opinion?

Hopefully soon.

Im trying to finish off my HT rig right now, will do the 2 channel later. Ive been jonsin to watch "Matrix revolutions" and "return of the king" on a decent setup. Right now what i have doesent cut it.

Im looking at using MMG-W's for the l/r/sl/sr with MMGc for the center. Ill be driving the fronts with my Denon-Poa2800 amp, and the cneter/surrounds off the reciever. Denon states my AVR3805 can run a 4 ohm load and magnepans website says these are 4 ohm on one page and 5 ohm on another. I figure it might not tax the power supply so much if it is only powering 3 5ohm speakers instead of 7, especially if 2 of those are only surrounds, and then im gonna start working on getting a good multichannel amp. maybe a Marantz MM9000.

So hopefully i will be able to get the Maggies for the l/r channel in the next few weeks. :)

I may put them off for a little while tho, there is a brick&mortar up here selling brand new pairs of Velodyne DLS3750(ithink) for about 1/2 price. If they still have this offer going when i have the money im jumping on that. A pair of velo's will be fine for my HT needs. Plus the radioshack speakers sound WAY BETTER than the sub im currently runnin.

I'm gonna do the maggie on-walls just to keep the number of "Speakers" down in the living room cause that's where the 2 channel is gonna go as well, but in a different spot. Those things look more like acccoustical treatments than speakers. ;)

Gotta do something about the speakers tho, i have about 4k in the front end, with a speaker setup that is worth about 50 bucks.

Well stop reading into things too much while there, otherwise your gonna get ring around the heinie:)

P.S. When are you Updating your Radio Speakers???

Dont worry audiobugged, i am in no way seduced by the power of best buy's vast technical expertise. ;)
However, when yer on the pot, sometimes things go better while yer readin. hehehe

I agree Slappy. (nt)

Slappy, there are a monumental amount of existing threads on this subject in the archives. You really need to find yourself a new women, as you have too much time on hands! First reading the Playboy articles, & now your down to actually trying to gain knowledge from the Best Buy's Sunday advertisements? Hang in there little camper, before you go off the deep end with the Kmart ads!

Hi Slappy-
I've used various brands of both types. I will say that I have found a very good Toslink (re: Van den hul, Wireworld glass) is better dynamically than many of the coax's around (re: Signal cable, Stereovox, Vampire wire, some others). But, a very good coax will provide a bit more bottom and a bit fuller sound, depending on electronics of course. I no longer use an "official" coax. I use BEL-the wire, the same interconnect I use for 2-channel stereo connections between CD/DVD and receiver and Satellite/receiver (system 1) and preamp/amp (system 2).

Real men would use AT&T glass (ST) optical, anyway. I use S/PDIF over coax since it's tough to find decent inexpensive players to use as transports that have anything better, like AES/EBU over XLR, I2S, or I2S enhanced (13W3 connector?), or whatever that format Ed Meitner is using. and in the inexpensive realm I, too, think coax sounds better than toslink. Plus you have all of the supposed audiophile predispositions [i]against[/i] toslink, so every newbie under the sun drops toslink since he is out right told it is better (where or not he can hear a difference).

For the most part, I agree with you. Some marketing exec decided that toslink just looks so much more 'advanced' and 'like more digital' since it shoots a red beam like a laser, so it is just marketed that way.

Though, as a benchmark, I would think any interface (in audiophile implementations) would have to be better than AT&T glass, else just use glass. but for the most part is seems that AES and coax are pretty much at that point. And some would argue that glass still may be 'blacker'but AES or coax would have the edge in musicality. Who knows. I'm just an armchair quarterback, err, audiophile. :-)