Does it matter? After doing lots of reading it appears that expensive coax is a bit of a waste. How about optical cable?
for short runs, 0's and 1's are 0's and 1's. this all changes over the long run.
that's the plan... CD optical and cox out of the da20mkII
for some stupid reason I came to my morning class, there's a guest speaker I totally forgot about.. prof nowhere to be found and my DAC is just sitting in a box unused!
the sub will be here tomorrow!
I did some research on optical cables a while back and from what I understand the difference between a quality cable and an okay cable is amount of jitter. Not sure if *I* can hear jitter with my current playback system (doubtful), but there are those who say they can.
If I recall correctly, more strands in the fiber = less jitter, and glass optical fiber introduces less jitter than plastic fiber. Check the Archival Info forum for a thread with some quality (but inexpensive) optical cable recommendations. I went with the Sonicwave, I believe. Check the post, I think I noted which cable I bought.
thanks Brian!
I have an Audioquest Cinemaquest optical cable and I like it.
thanks Jamie!
HOLY SHIT!
this thing has brought my entire stereo to life...
Quote from: Tim on January 20, 2004, 04:58:31 PM
HOLY SHIT!
this thing has brought my entire stereo to life...
Nice! I'm saying the same thing about my new preamp, and it isn't even burned in yet!!
awesome... didn't know you got one yet!
new playback toys... yeah.
I get the sub tomorrow... look out neighbors!
hehehe... thanks Mike.
once I get the cd player hooked up with a new optical cable I can't wait to hear some of your stuff on here.
listening to my Dead 7-10-03 u89(subcard/nos)->V3 tape right now (my personal favorite tape that I've made) and there is so much air in the top end... the cymbals are smooth. I think the lowend sounds little nicer now too...
can't get off of the couch!
the digi out on my cd/dvd player isn't working.... not cool.
Quote from: Tim on January 20, 2004, 08:30:11 PM
the digi out on my cd/dvd player isn't working.... not cool.
Sucks! Hope you get the problem resolved soon, that's the pits. Good luck, Tim.
I'm playing around with it a bit. sure as hell hope I don't need a new cd player. this one is just a year old...
thanks Brian!
aha! had to turn on the digiouts. went through about 6 menus to find it but it's on and working right now.
really happy with how this little box just smoothes everything out, takes the edge off of everything.