Coaxial digital or Optical digital?

Posted by Nigel Pond [SysOp] [IP: 63.10.145.244] on July 18, 1999 at 11:35:53
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In Reply to: Coaxial digital or Optical digital? posted by David Burgess on July 17, 1999 at 22:47:56:

David, I think you are overstating the case. In my experience, over the cable run distances usually found in home theatre, there is nothing to chose between optical and coaxial connections. Over longer distances factors such as external interference and internal reflection can be an issue. Even with optical to coax converters in the run, I have not discerned any performance problem (see link below).

For DD and DTS formats, where the data are sent in packets, there is even less room for an audible difference - those datastreams are sent in packets in an encoded format, so they either get to the processor or they do not - if they do not you get an audible drop out, there is no half-way house, the datastreams cannot "sort of" get there or lose bits of themselves along the way.

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• Coaxial digital or Optical digital? - Dustin Smith 19:51:49 07/18/99 (1)
  • Coaxial digital or Optical digital? - Ken Simmons 20:15:37 07/18/99 (0)

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