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?
OK, so three posters and four answers. Isn't the internet great! -optical -HDMI -XLR -coax Back of the Oppo unit. I don't see XLR. As for HDMI, Google tells me inputs are rare on stand-alone DAC's. Essence and NAD M51. What else? Any other votes for optical vs. coax, assuming modern, highly-engineered, jitter-rejecting DAC? |
