As stated, glass toslink if the way to go if you must use toslink. A cheap plastic toslink cable can cripple even high end DACs that presumably are immune to jitter. Time and time again I hear people pushing toslink around here. My experience and many others at say the CA website, indicates that when toslink is better than coax, there is some other issue at work. FWIW, it is the same signal. S/PDIF gets converted to toslink by receivers at each end.
By using coax or glass toslink you are likely to gain some dynamics/PRaT at the minimum. To me it often sounds like what you might think the difference is looking through glass versus plexiglass. There is a diffusion that is unmistakable...
My 2 cents.
By using coax or glass toslink you are likely to gain some dynamics/PRaT at the minimum. To me it often sounds like what you might think the difference is looking through glass versus plexiglass. There is a diffusion that is unmistakable...
My 2 cents.