DIGITAL OUT: Optical Cable vs. Coaxial Cable

there are many factors to both including length, materials, design quality, associated equipment etc. as with most choices it will take experimentaion to know for sure. i just switched toslink cables on my dtv dvr to theta casanova and there was a marked difference. i would not have guessed this before. the new cable is an mit avt1 and is available through their discount site for around $50 if you chose to go that route. best money i have spent for a long while. i use a mit reference coax digital cable from my dvd to pre/pro. there is allot of good info on this issue on wikepedia.

i would have agreed with nsgarch two weeks ago but when i changed optical cables it was night and day. the only explanation could be the cable itself. there are allot of discussions on this forum and others about whether quality of either digital cables matters and i never knew what to believe. now i have proof and am quite frankly surprised at the outcome.