Optical works great over long distances. What matters is the jitter rejection capability of what you put at the other end.
max length of toslink or coaxial digital cable without signal degradation?
I hope this is a fairly straight-forward question and doesn't involve too much subjective opinion.
I have an Oppo 203 in my video stack, quite separate from my audio stack. If I were to use the Oppo as a transport for a (hypothetical) DAC (sitting in the audio rack), I'd need perhaps an 8' cable to connect them.
Would that distance lead to signal degradation? Is one transmission mode superior to the other for these kinds of lengths?