Optical vs coax vs spdif


The local classical radio station 101.1 FM DALLAS. Is giving away their entire CD collection at MY restaurant!!! Awesome 😎, but I haven’t used a CD player in my setup in years. I got on eBay and scored a Marantz PMD321 for like $50 bucks including shipping. 

i want to use my dac (simaudio Moon 280d) but I don’t know what kind of digital connection would work best. 

Should i I use optical, coax, or spdif... 

thanks 
andrewkelley

Showing 1 response by mofimadness

I've done A LOT of listening over the years to the various digital connection types.  On super expensive gear to mediocre gear.  Almost without fail, I rate them as follows:

1.  I2S  (pretty rare and very equipment specific)
2.  Firewire   (pretty rare and very equipment specific)
3.  AES/EBU
4.  Coax on BNC
5.  Coax on RCA
6.  AT&T ST Glass Fiber
7.  Toslink
8.  USB

Of course this is just my opinion, on my system, in my room and with my music...